diff --git a/components/editorControls/umbraco.editorControls.csproj b/components/editorControls/umbraco.editorControls.csproj
index 4206304045..5005307577 100644
--- a/components/editorControls/umbraco.editorControls.csproj
+++ b/components/editorControls/umbraco.editorControls.csproj
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@
     <Compile Include="tinymce\TinyMCELegacyControl.cs" />
     <Compile Include="tinymce\tinyMCEImageHelper.cs" />
     <Compile Include="tinymce\tinyMCEPreValueConfigurator.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="userControlWrapper\SerializationHelper.cs" />
     <Compile Include="userControlWrapper\usercontrolData.cs" />
     <Compile Include="wysiwyg\editorButton.cs" />
     <Compile Include="tinyMCE3\TinyMCE.cs" />
diff --git a/components/editorControls/userControlWrapper/SerializationHelper.cs b/components/editorControls/userControlWrapper/SerializationHelper.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..abae40c3f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/editorControls/userControlWrapper/SerializationHelper.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+using System;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Xml.Serialization;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Xml;
+
+namespace umbraco.editorControls.userControlWrapper
+{
+    public class SerializationHelper
+    {
+        public static object ValueFromXmlString(object value, Type type)
+        {
+            XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(value.GetType());
+            StringReader strRdr = new StringReader(value.ToString());
+            XmlTextReader xmlRdr = new XmlTextReader(strRdr);
+            object obj = ser.Deserialize(xmlRdr);
+            xmlRdr.Close();
+            strRdr.Close();
+            return obj;
+        }
+
+        public static string ValueToXmlString(object value)
+        {
+            MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream();
+            XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(value.GetType());
+            ser.Serialize(str, value);
+            str.Seek(0, System.IO.SeekOrigin.Begin);
+            XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
+            doc.Load(str);
+            str.Close();
+            return doc.InnerXml;
+        }
+    }
+}