Question

How can I save the content of an xml file to a database( in field which has an XML type)

should I read the content of file with i.e:

FileUpload1.FileContent;

and then send it as a parameter to save in Database? Is it correct?

Answer 1

You have to first save it to the Server hard disk and then get the InnerXML of that to a string variable and then save it to the database.

Assuming you saved the file to some folder in your disk, you can use the below method (using LINQtoXML) to read the content

XElement elm = XElement.Load(Server.MapPath(@"../YourUploadFolder/yourXMl.xml"));
if(elm!=null)
{
    var reader = elm.CreateReader();
    reader.MoveToContent();
    string xmlContent = reader.ReadInnerXml(); xmlContent
   // Now save to the database    
}