OOPs.. I Don't have to do it again

Serialization Create an empty instance of your object Dim Obj as New MYOBJECT Dim cn As New SqlConnection(ConnectionString.Text_) Dim cmd As New SqlCommand Dim Trans As SqlTransaction   With cmd                 .Connection = cn                 .Transaction = Trans                 .CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure                 .CommandText = "somestoredprocedure"             Dim xMLSerialiser_ As New System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer ( Obj.GetType )                 Dim sWriter As New System.IO.StringWriter                 xMLSerialiser_.Serialize(sWriter, Obj )                 'add xml to database                 .Parameters.AddWithValue("@persistxml", sWriter.ToString) End With cmd.ExecuteNonQuery() Trans.Commit()   DeSerialization Dim Obj as New MYOBJECT cn.Open()             With cmd                 .Connection = cn                 .CommandType = CommandType.Text