→ Xml Serialisation (Serialization) in C#
One thing I absolutely hate doing is reading xml, it bores me to bits. So to make this dreadful task a little more easier I use a nice little extension function that I found (and improved; then put up on stackoverflow). If you mark a class with the XmlSerialization attributes (XmlRoot/XmlElement) you can quickly take an xml string and turn it in to an object.