//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1314155/returning-a-value-from-thread

using System;

using System.Threading;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Xml;

using System.IO;

using System.Text;

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public class Program

{   

    public static void Main()

    {

        XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();

        settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;

        settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Auto;

        settings.CloseOutput = false;

​

        // Create the XmlWriter object and write some content.

        MemoryStream strm = new MemoryStream();

        XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(strm, settings);

        writer.WriteElementString("orderID", "1-456-ab");

        writer.WriteElementString("orderID", "2-36-00a");

        writer.Flush();

        writer.Close();

        string xml = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(strm.ToArray());

        Console.WriteLine(xml);

        Console.WriteLine("exit");

    }

}