Question

How can I see the XML contents of fully populated XmlWriter object while debugging. My silverlight application doesn’t permit to actually write to a file and check the contents.

Answer 1

You can create the XmlWriter based on a MemoryStream, then unencode the bytes from the memory stream and display it in a text box, for example.

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
XmlWriterSettings ws = new XmlWriterSettings();
ws.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
XmlWriter w = XmlWriter.Create(ms, ws);
// populate the writer
w.Flush();
textBox1.Text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.GetBuffer(), 0, (int)ms.Position);