XmlSerializableSerializer.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using ServiceStack.DesignPatterns.Serialization;
using ServiceStack.ServiceModel.Support;

namespace ServiceStack.ServiceModel.Serialization
{
	public class XmlSerializableSerializer : IStringSerializer 
	{
		public static XmlSerializableSerializer Instance = new XmlSerializableSerializer();

		public string Parse<XmlDto>(XmlDto from)
		{
			try
			{
				using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
				{
					using (XmlWriter xw = new XmlTextWriter(ms, Encoding.UTF8))
					{
						var ser = new XmlSerializerWrapper(from.GetType());
						ser.WriteObject(xw, from);
						xw.Flush();
						ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
						using (var reader = new StreamReader(ms))
						{
							return reader.ReadToEnd();
						}
					}
				}
			}
			catch (Exception ex)
			{
				throw new SerializationException(string.Format("Error serializing object of type {0}", from.GetType().FullName), ex);
			}
		}
	}
}