Code template/model for (de)serializing an object to/from an XML file.

FileHandler.cs

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Xml.Schema;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;

namespace XmlFile
{
    class FileHandler
    {
        public static MyObject LoadObjectFile(string filespec)
        {
			MyObject thisObject = null;
			try
				{
					StreamReader stream = new StreamReader(@filespec);
					XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyObject));
					thisObject = (MyObject)serializer.Deserialize(stream);
					stream.Close();
				}
			catch (Exception)
				{
					thisObject = new MyObject();
				}
            return thisObject;
        }
        public static void SaveObjectFile(MyObject thisObject, string filespec)
        {
            StreamWriter stream = new StreamWriter(filespec);
            XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyObject));
			serializer.Serialize(stream, thisObject);
			stream.Close();
        }
    }
}

Updated to include stream.Close(); in two places, to close the stream. Silly mistake there.