.net 4.0 - VB.Net Serialize anonymous type to xml -

in mvc can following serialise object anonymous type json...

    public function getstatelist() jsonresult         dim myobject = new {.id = 1, .property = "somevalue"}         return me.json(myobject)     end function 

which return like;

{     "id": 1,     "property"somevalue", } 

i'd same output xml. haven't been able find equivalent method. please point me in right direction?

many thanks

the short answer cannot, see post. recommend create concrete type represent structure of anonymous output, , use normal xml serialization technique example i've provided below.

here basic example of how use (sorry it's in c# syntax):

using (memorystream memstream = new memorystream()) {     system.text.utf8encoding utf8 = new system.text.utf8encoding();      // read , convert byte array     xmlserializer serializer = new xmlserializer( <<yourobject>>.gettype() );      serializer.serialize( memstream, <<yourobject>>));      string output = utf8.getstring( memstream.toarray() ); }