Generic Serialize/Deserialize

Ok I'm playing with some Silverlight and with WCF. And while if you stick with the standard stuff it works great, but if you want something special you get trouble. And I wanted DUPLEX communication. Ok more on that in a later blog.

Here is some cool code I used to Serialize/Deserialize some off the communication I'm doing between Silverlight and WCF.

private T Read<T>(string value)
{
    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
    return (T) serializer.Deserialize(new StringReader(value));
}

private string Write<T>(T value)
{
    StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
    serializer.Serialize(writer, value);
    return writer.ToString();
}

It uses generics, introduced in .NET Framework 2.0. Let me know if you can use it.