PROBLEM WITH OpenFileDialog WITH XML

[bobrad]

MAYBE SOMEBODY CAM HELP

I AM USING THE FOLLOWING CODE TO GET A LOCATION OF A FILE IN A WINFORM
DIALOG

OpenFileDialog openFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
OpenFileDialog.Filter = " Access (*.mdb)|*.mdb|All files (*.*)|*.*";
if (openFileDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
DataBaseLocation.Text = openFileDialog.FileName;

THIS WORKS GREAT AND I GET THE LOCATION PUT IN A TEXT BOX
HERE COMES THE PROBLEM, I WANT TO SAVE THIS LOCATION IN AN XML FILE
(DOCUMENT) STORED ON THE PC. HERE GOES MY CODE FOR XML
XmlTextWriter TW=new XmlTextWriter("dbfile.xml",null);
TW.WriteStartDocument();
TW.WriteStartElement("Database");
TW.WriteElementString("DatabaseLoc",cf.DataBaseLoc ation.Text);
TW.WriteEndElement();
TW.WriteEndDocument();
TW.Close();

THIS CODE WORKS FINE ONLY IF I TYPE IN THE LOCATION INTO THE TEXTBOX
MSELF, I AM THAN ABLE TO CREATE AN XML FILE ON THE PC. IF I USE THE
OPENFILEDIALOG TO SELECT A FILE, THIS IS WHERE I HAVE THE PROBLEM.
FIRST IT DOES NOT CREATE A XMLFILE AT ALL EVEN THOGUH THE INFORMATION
SHOWS UP IN THE TEXT BOX, IF I CLOSE THIS DIALOG AND REOPEN IT GIVES
THE IMPRESSION IT READ THE XML FILE AND DISPLAY THE FILE I SELECTED
EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO PHYSICAL XML FILE, IT APPEARS AS IF IT'S
STILL IN MEMORY AND NOT COMMITING THE WRITE. IF I EXIT THE
APPLICATION AND RESTART IT I CAN NO LONGER PULL UP THE XML FILE.

doES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE PROBOLE CODE BE, AM I USING A
REFERNCE RATHER THAN ACTUAL STRING, THATS WHY XML CAN'T COMMIT TO THE
WRITE? OR IS THIS A BUG? ANY HELP ON THIS WOULD BE GREAT

THANKS

[NaraendiraKumar R. R.]

I was able to make it work with a minor change. I dropped cf in the line
below.

TW.WriteElementString("DatabaseLoc",cf.DataBaseLoc ation.Text);
If that does'nt work & you still think that the content in memory is not
being commited to a disk, try doing Flush() on the Writer.

-Naraen

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I AM USING THE FOLLOWING CODE TO GET A LOCATION OF A FILE IN A WINFORM
DIALOG

OpenFileDialog openFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
OpenFileDialog.Filter = " Access (*.mdb)|*.mdb|All files (*.*)|*.*";
if (openFileDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
DataBaseLocation.Text = openFileDialog.FileName;

THIS WORKS GREAT AND I GET THE LOCATION PUT IN A TEXT BOX
HERE COMES THE PROBLEM, I WANT TO SAVE THIS LOCATION IN AN XML FILE
(DOCUMENT) STORED ON THE PC. HERE GOES MY CODE FOR XML
XmlTextWriter TW=new XmlTextWriter("dbfile.xml",null);
TW.WriteStartDocument();
TW.WriteStartElement("Database");
TW.WriteElementString("DatabaseLoc",cf.DataBaseLoc ation.Text);
TW.WriteEndElement();
TW.WriteEndDocument();
TW.Close();

THIS CODE WORKS FINE ONLY IF I TYPE IN THE LOCATION INTO THE TEXTBOX
MSELF, I AM THAN ABLE TO CREATE AN XML FILE ON THE PC. IF I USE THE
OPENFILEDIALOG TO SELECT A FILE, THIS IS WHERE I HAVE THE PROBLEM.
FIRST IT DOES NOT CREATE A XMLFILE AT ALL EVEN THOGUH THE INFORMATION
SHOWS UP IN THE TEXT BOX, IF I CLOSE THIS DIALOG AND REOPEN IT GIVES
THE IMPRESSION IT READ THE XML FILE AND DISPLAY THE FILE I SELECTED
EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO PHYSICAL XML FILE, IT APPEARS AS IF IT'S
STILL IN MEMORY AND NOT COMMITING THE WRITE. IF I EXIT THE
APPLICATION AND RESTART IT I CAN NO LONGER PULL UP THE XML FILE.

doES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE PROBOLE CODE BE, AM I USING A
REFERNCE RATHER THAN ACTUAL STRING, THATS WHY XML CAN'T COMMIT TO THE
WRITE? OR IS THIS A BUG? ANY HELP ON THIS WOULD BE GREAT

THANKS