Comments on: Serializing XML in .NET – UTF-8 and UTF-16

By: Amit Agrawal

Amit Agrawal — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:12:17 +0000

Very helpful post indeed!

One more thing:
I used new UTF8Encoding instead of Encoding.UTF8 as the latter adds a BOM (Byte Order Mark)to the beginning the UTF8 string which was messing up my UTF8 consumer …

See reference to BOM here :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s064f8w2.aspx

By: mike nelson

mike nelson — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:48:44 +0000

thanks! great explanation and sample code, works perfectly

By: MumHaBR

MumHaBR — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:27:27 +0000

I used “Encoding.UTF8.GetString(stream.ToArray());”.
So I don´t need to create a Reader.

By: Matt W

Matt W — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:50:56 +0000

Just wanted to let you know that this post is still helpful! Just helped me figure out an xml serialization issue.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:06:23 +0000

Exactly what I needed. I had generated a strongly typed data set from an XSD of an InfoPath form. I needed take the XML in a form library in SharePoint and deserialize and serialize for some WF workflow I was building – sweet.

By: Quimbly

Quimbly — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:20:08 +0000

Thanks for the blurb. I was having trouble with this exact problem.