Dynamic XML Serialiser

BASONJS

Hi guys, we are back. I have a small problem with xml serialization. Problem: I can serialize an object as the type is know from the object passed in to be serialized, but after this is passed through a webservice, deserialization is a problem, as the type of the object is not known. The objects which are being serialized are all custom objects. Scenario: I have a generic serializer class. The code found below:

    /// /// Method to convert a custom Object to XML string
    /// 
    /// Object that is to be serialized to XML
    /// XML string
    public String serializeObject(Object pObject)
    {
        try
        {
            String XmlizedString = null;
            MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(pObject.GetType());
            XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8);
            xs.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, pObject);
            memoryStream = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream;
            XmlizedString = UTF8ByteArrayToString(memoryStream.ToArray());
            return XmlizedString;
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.Console.WriteLine(e);
            return null;
        }
    } 
    
    /// /// Method to reconstruct an Object from XML string
    /// 
    /// 
    /// 
    public Object deserializeObject(String pXmlizedString)
    {
        XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Object));
        MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(StringToUTF8ByteArray(pXmlizedString));
        XmlTextReader xmlTextReader = new XmlTextReader(memoryStream);
        return xs.Deserialize(xmlTextReader);
    }

When I am serializing the object, this works fine, as I can create a serializer with the object type from the object:

XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(pObject.GetType());

But when I come to deserialize the object from a string, I see two options which both dont work. Either:

XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Object));

Which gives me a " not expected error" as the serializer obviously doesnt know about my custom class. Or: