Serialising and Deserialising C# code to Xml

Question

Hey there! I First of all, thank you for all the help on my "Classes" question. They helped a lot. Now i need to know how to serialize/deserialize a class from C# code, to Xml. Please note that i am working on a console app on .NetCore NOT in windows forms. I have already created a class with some properties, an empty constructor, and i called an instance of it in my main program. So how do i convert that to Xml, and where do i find the Xml file?
I will include some code below.

Thanks!

//using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
//using System.Data;
//using System.DirectoryServices;
//using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.Security;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Xml.Schema;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace SerializeDesirialise
{
class Program
{

public class TestClass
{
public TestClass()
{

}
public string name { get; set; }
public int age { get; set; }
public string gender { get; set; }

}

static void Main(string[] args)
{
TestClass Person = new TestClass();
Person.name = "Andrew";
Person.age = 5;
Person.gender = "male";
}
}
}

Answer 1

https://www.dotnetperls.com/serialize-list
Have a look at this web-page
Mark you class with the serialize attriubte [Serializable()]
Use a formatter to serialize the object

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/483055/XML-Serialization-and-Deserialization-Part
This is also a nice project. Which does not use the serializable object but uses a other method.

Answer 2

What is the purpose of serialisation. Save the current state of the object?

Answer 3

For now, there is no purose for me. I just need to see the xml code

Answer 4

Thank you!