I am working on some pretty complex code that is writing to a memorystream using an XmlTextwriter. Is there a way in Visual Studio debug to see the content of the memorystream/XmlTextwriter as I am stepping through code.
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FYI, you shouldn't be using `XmlTextWriter`. Use `XmlWriter` via `XmlWriter.Create()` instead. – John Saunders Sep 15 '11 at 19:52
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It's easy to get it from the MemoryStream:
Encoding.UTF8.GetString(stream.ToArray())
(That's assuming you've told it to use UTF-8; use Encoding.Unicode or whatever's appropriate if necessary.)
It doesn't make as much sense to ask the XmlTextWriter - it's just writing data, and probably doesn't know or care what it's already written. You may want to flush it, mind you.
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Thanks Jon. You always help me out. BTW how long have you been programming? – Robert Sep 16 '11 at 12:49
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2@Robert: It depends on exactly what you mean... I wrote my first programs on a Spectrum when I was about 8, 27 years ago :) – Jon Skeet Sep 16 '11 at 12:51