How to save this string into XML file?

Question

I have this string variable:

string xml = @"<Contacts>      <Contact>      <Name>Patrick Hines</Name>      <Phone Type=""Home"">206-555-0144</Phone>      <Phone Type=""Work"">425-555-0145</Phone>      <Phone Type=""Mobile"">332-899-5678</Phone>      <Address>          <Street1>123 Main St</Street1>          <City>Mercer Island</City>          <State>WA</State>          <Postal>68042</Postal>      </Address>      </Contact>      <Contact>      <Name>Dorothy Lee</Name>      <Phone Type=""Home"">910-555-1212</Phone>      <Phone Type=""Work"">336-555-0123</Phone>      <Phone Type=""Mobile"">336-555-0005</Phone>      <Address>          <Street1>16 Friar Duck Ln</Street1>          <City>Greensboro</City>          <State>NC</State>          <Postal>27410</Postal>      </Address>      </Contact> </Contacts>"; 

How can I save this string into an XML file in my drive c? Using c#.

Answer 1

The fact that it's XML is basically irrelevant. You can save any text to a file very simply with File.WriteAllText:

File.WriteAllText("foo.xml", xml); 

Note that you can also specify the encoding, which defaults to UTF-8. So for example, if you want to write a file in plain ASCII:

File.WriteAllText("foo.xml", xml, Encoding.ASCII);