Serializar y Deserializar clases

 using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic; 
using System.Linq; 
using System.Text; 
using System.IO; 
using System.Xml.Serialization; 
using System.Xml; 
namespace TestStuff 
{ 
    public class Configuration 
    { 
        #region properties 
        public List<string> UIComponents { get; set; } 
        public List<string> Settings { get; set; } 
        #endregion 
        //serialize itself 
        public string Serialize() 
        { 
            MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(); 
            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Configuration)); 
            using (StreamWriter xmlTextWriter = new StreamWriter(memoryStream)) 
            { 
                xs.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, this); 
                xmlTextWriter.Flush(); 
                //xmlTextWriter.Close(); 
                memoryStream = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream; 
                memoryStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); 
                StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(memoryStream); 
                return reader.ReadToEnd(); 
            } 
        } 
        //deserialize into itself 
        public void Deserialize(string xmlString) 
        { 
            String XmlizedString = null; 
            using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream()) 
            { 
                using (StreamWriter w = new StreamWriter(memoryStream)) 
                { 
                    w.Write(xmlString); 
                    w.Flush(); 
                    XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Configuration)); 
                    memoryStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); 
                    XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(memoryStream); 
                    Configuration currentConfig = (Configuration)xs.Deserialize(reader); 
                    this.Settings = currentConfig.Settings; 
                    this.UIComponents = currentConfig.UIComponents; 
                    w.Close(); 
                } 
            } 
        } 
        static void Main(string[] args) 
        { 
            Configuration thisConfig = new Configuration(); 
            thisConfig.Settings = new List<string>(){ 
                "config1", "config2" 
            }; 
            thisConfig.UIComponents = new List<string>(){ 
                "comp1", "comp2" 
            }; 
            //serializing the object 
            string serializedString = thisConfig.Serialize(); 
 
            Configuration myConfig = new Configuration(); 
            //deserialize into myConfig object 
            myConfig.Deserialize(serializedString); 
        } 
    } 
 
}