This class contains only an extension method to all types that converts any arbitrary object to an XML tag tree.

ToXml.cs

using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

public static partial class Converter
{
	public static string ToXml<T>(this T TheObject)
	{
		var Serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));

		var SerializerSettings = new XmlWriterSettings
		{
			Encoding = new UnicodeEncoding(false, false),
			Indent = true,
			OmitXmlDeclaration = true,
		};

		// these two lines prevent the root tag from being namespaced
		var Ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
		Ns.Add("", "");

		using (var Results = new StringWriter())
		{
			using (var Writer = XmlWriter.Create(Results, SerializerSettings))
				Serializer.Serialize(Writer, TheObject, Ns);

			return Results.ToString();
		}					
	}
}