using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        getData<PerfStatusCustomization>(null, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-16\"?>\r\n<PerfStatusCustomization xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">\r\n  <ClsSchemeID>101</ClsSchemeID>\r\n</PerfStatusCustomization>");

    }

​

    public class PerfStatusCustomization

    {

        public int ClsSchemeID { get; set;}

    }

​

​

    //of course it is stupid it should either return the object ot object should be out

    private static void getData<T>(T objectcust, string customizationXML) where T : class

    {

        var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));

        using (TextReader reader = new StringReader(customizationXML))

        {

            objectcust = (T)serializer.Deserialize(reader);

        }

    }

}