Question

I am trying to create an XML file for storing some info from a class. I gave the path as a const set to Info.xml. but the XMLTextWriter is not saving the XML file to bin(debug/release) folder, rather it is saving it to MyDocuments folder. When i tried to check if the file exists with File.Exists(path), its returning false. Could somebody please guide me here.

My code looks as below…

string BookName = "Book1" 
string AuthorName= "Author1" 
XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter("Info.xml", Encoding.UTF8);    writer.WriteStartDocument(); 
writer.WriteStartElement("Title"); 
writer.WriteString(BookName); 
writer.WriteStartElement("Author"); 
writer.WriteString(AuthorName); 
writer.WriteEndElement(); 
writer.WriteEndElement(); 
writer.WriteEndDocument(); 
writer.Close();

Answer 1

Try this

    public void SerializeToXML(YourClass yourObj)
    {
        if (!File.Exists("C:\\Info.xml"))
            File.Create("C:\\Info.xml");
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(YourClass));
        System.IO.TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter("C:\\Info.xml");
        serializer.Serialize(textWriter, yourObj);
        textWriter.Close();
    }

This would save “Info.xml” to your C:, neither in debug nor in release. (It would also create file if doesn’t already exists).

Check out this link as well, it might help.