Question

I have this xml file: http://www.studiovincent.net/list.xml

I need copy whole content in other xml file.

I tryed this code:

string sourcefile = "http://www.studiovincent.net/list.xml";
string destinationfile = "test.xml";
System.IO.File.Copy(sourcefile, destinationfile);

But not work, because I get this error: URI formats are not supported.

How Can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

I would recommend using WebClient.DownloadFile. Downloading a string and then saving it could cause problems with character set mapping.

WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.DownloadFile("http://www.studiovincent.net/list.xml", "test.xml");

This copies the file directly rather than converting the data to a string, which might do some string conversions (for example, the file is Unicode, and WebClient thinks it’s UTF-8) and then copying to a file.