c# object to XML

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Trying to make a simple app to convert my c# object to XML. I have an API that takes in XML and sends out XML. I want to build the objects as c# objects and then convert them to XML. Its working fine no errors but the XML conversion is not correct or at least I don't think my object is correct. I used a tool online to convert my XML to an object but I don't think it built it correctly:


XML:

<FlexFacadeObject xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Columns>
<cst_key>861a06c6-f210-406c-a0c7-0002a1353d73</cst_key>
<allAHA_Primary>1</allAHA_Primary>
</Columns>
</FlexFacadeObject>


This is what I need to build in c#


object:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace Object_To_XML
{
[XmlRoot(ElementName = "FlexFacadeObject")]
public class FlexFacadeObject
{
[XmlElement(ElementName = "Columns")]
public Columns Columns { get; set; }

[XmlAttribute(AttributeName = "i", Namespace = "A Namespace Name for xmlns Attributes")]
public string I { get; set; }
}

[XmlRoot(ElementName = "Columns")]
public class Columns
{
[XmlElement(ElementName = "cst_key")]
public string Cst_key { get; set; }

[XmlElement(ElementName = "allAHA_Primary")]
public string AllAHA_Primary { get; set; }
}
}


To me this looks wrong but not sure how to adjust it


Here is my code for the tool:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace Object_To_XML
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
private FlexFacadeObject obj = new FlexFacadeObject();

public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void btnConvertObject_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

string XML = GetXMLFromObject(obj);

MessageBox.Show(XML);
}

public static string GetXMLFromObject(object o)
{
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter tw = null;
try
{
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(o.GetType());
tw = new XmlTextWriter(sw);
serializer.Serialize(tw, o);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
//Handle Exception Code
}
finally
{
sw.Close();
if (tw != null)
{
tw.Close();
}
}
return sw.ToString();
}
}
}


Here is the returned string:

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-16\"?><FlexFacadeObject xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" />


It should match the XML at the top but its not. So I assume my object is wrong.

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