Serializing a simple array with XmlSerializer?

You haven't rewound the stream; it is positioned at the end. Set . Position = 0 before reading it.

Or easier, just serialize to a StringWriter or if you really want to use a MemoryStream pass the (oversized) backing array from GetBuffer() along with the . Length to an Encoding and call GetString() .

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