Reading XML in a string and write to text file in c#

Question

I have XML content that I am retrieving from a service and I want to write it into a text file. I am getting this XML content in a string variable.

How can I read this and write in text file? Please help. I am getting data successfully using this code:

string results = "";
using (WebClient Web = new WebClient())
{
    results = Web.DownloadString(WebString.ToString());
}

I have tried some links, but they are not helping

Jon Skeet · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-20 11:51:35Z

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If you want to save it in a file, don't use DownloadString to start with - just use WebClient.DownloadFile.

If you really want to fetch it in memory and then save it, you can save it with:

File.WriteAllText(filename, results);

Note that this code doesn't depend on it being XML at all... nothing you're asking is XML-specific.

answered Sep 20, 2013 at 11:51

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Sandy Over a year ago

But In case of Web.DownloadString() how to read it. just for knowledge.

Sandy Over a year ago

no overload DownloadFile takes one argument error comes when I tried this

Jon Skeet Over a year ago

@Sandy: Well no, you need to specify the URL to fetch, and the file to save it to. Did you read the documentation? Which part was problematic? As for DownloadString - I don't know what you mean by "how to read it"... you've fetched it as a string...

Sandy Over a year ago

yes I have fetched it as string and it is present with me. now I want to write this string in text file.

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