How are you serializing your object? And can't you serialize to a
anything but a file?

How do you serialize it? Why can you only serialize to a file?

Hi,

Since you have not been very forth coming with information I will assume you
are referring to XmlSerializer.
If this is the case, you can pass the Serialize method an instance of a
StringWriter as the first argument, once the Serialize method returns you
can invoke ToString() on the StringWriter instance to get the Xml string.

Hope this helps