Question

I have a method, serializetoxml, that accepts an object of type obj1 as its parameter:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        obj1 myobj = new obj1();
        serializetoxml(myobj);    
    }
}

public class obj1
{
    public string a { get; set; }
    public int b { get; set; }
    public bool c { get; set; }
}

public static void serializetoxml(obj1 myobj)
{
    XmlSerializer myserializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(obj1));
    TextWriter mywriter = new StreamWriter("C:\\my.xml");
    myserializer.Serialize(mywriter, myobj);
    mywriter.Close();
}

Now I have a class, obj2, that I want to pass as its parameter

public class obj2
{
    public int a { get; set; }
    public bool b { get; set; }
    public List<string> c { get; set; }
}

How do I reuse the serializetoxml method to be able to accept another type of parameter, so that I will not write the same method again and change the typeof to obj2?

obj2 myobj = new obj2();
serializetoxml(myobj);

Answer 1

Try the following

public static void serializetoxml(object myobj) {
    XmlSerializer myserializer = new XmlSerializer(myobj.GetType());
    TextWriter mywriter = new StreamWriter("C:\\my.xml");
    myserializer.Serialize(mywriter, myobj);
    mywriter.Close();
}