A common problem for a .NET project is that after deploying a DLL into the bin folder or as a matter of fact doing any change in the bin folder of a web site all the data for any of the current in process sessions is lost. The same happens if we change the web.config file.

In some cases it makes sense to be so, for example if we store in the session objects that are being changed by the current deployment of a new DLL. But in many other cases it is rather a disturbing frustrating side effect that we want to avoid.

If you need to serialize your business objects into XML you may also need to generate automatically XML Schema so you can check the XML against that schema before try to deserialize it. This is one utility that will do that for you. Now, let’s first see one utility that will do basic XML serialization and deserialization objects.