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XML to String with UTF-8 encoding

Was having some issues trying to post with some xml data in utf-8 format, since it kept coming out in utf-16 even though I would set the contenttype and other settingsand somehow ignoring them.  I found an article that gave me a solution where they create a class that overrides the encoding of the string writer to utf-8 and that worked. ......  Dim sb = New StringBuilder()             Using writer As StringWriter = New StringWriterUtf8(sb)                 xmlDoc.Save(writer)             End Using             Return sb.ToString() ....... then in a class    Public Class StringWriterUtf8         Inherits StringWriter         Public Sub New(sb As StringBuilder)             MyBase.New(sb)         End Sub         Pu...