Question

Im trying to read xml into SQL and get an error at the “ds.ReadXml(“C:\test.xml”);” line,
any hints as to whats wrong? Thanks

tring connectionString = "Data Source=MyServer\\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=MyCatalog;Password=xxx;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=xxx";
        DataSet ds = new DataSet();
        DataTable sourcedata = new DataTable();
        ds.ReadXml("C:\test.xml");

        sourcedata = ds.Tables[0];

        using (SqlConnection sqlconn = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
        {
            sqlconn.Open();
            using (SqlBulkCopy bulkCopy = new SqlBulkCopy(sqlconn))
            {
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("ID", "ID");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("user_id", "user_id");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("upload_date", "upload_date");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("userAddr", "userAddr");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("serial_no", "serial_no");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("Mfgr", "Mfgr");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("model", "model");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("description", "description");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("type", "type");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("code", "code");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("comments", "comments");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("qty", "qty");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("condition", "condition");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("location", "location");
                bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add("price", "price");
                bulkCopy.DestinationTableName = "Upload";
                bulkCopy.WriteToServer(sourcedata);
            }
        }
    }

Answer 1

Your C:\test.xml is being read as C:(tab character)est.xml. Put a @ in front of your string: @"C:\test.xml", or escape it with "C:\\test.xml".

9 times out of ten, you’d get an error message along the lines of ‘illegal escape character’ when you make this mistake and it would be a lot more obvious what’s wrong, but in this case it just happens to be legal.