Save and load game state in Window Game

Question

currently I' using XNA 4.0 Game Studio and the Window Game Statement Management template which is provide by Visual Studio 2010 to develop a game. Is there any suggestion about how to save and load the state of a game? Previously I've develop a window phone game and the data is stored inside IsolatedStorage. Is there any similarity for the Window Game?

         using (IsolatedStorageFile file = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForAssembly())
            {
                using(IsolatedStorageFileStream stream = file.OpenFile("class123.xml",FileMode.Create))
                {
                    XmlWriterSettings setting = new XmlWriterSettings();
                    setting.Indent = true;
                    using(XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(stream,setting))
                    {
                        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Student));
                        serializer.Serialize(stream,new Student(){Name = "AhLim"});
                    }

                    using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(stream))
                    {
                        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Student));
                        studentA = (Student)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
                    }
                }
            }

Here's the code i recently used in Window Game Applicaiton. However, when i reach to Deserialize part, it show InvalidOperationException was unhandled and error on XML document (0,0) . May i know where's the problem?

Answer 1

The code used in a Windows Phone game should work fine on PC. Data would be stored in C:\\Users\\\\Documents\\SavedGames

Answer 2

Try

 serializer.Serialize(writer, new Student() { Name = "AhLim" });

instead of

 serializer.Serialize(stream, new Student() { Name = "AhLim" });

Looks like IsolatedStorageFileStream is using the wrong encoding.