>>>Newbie question. I have the following snippet of C# code that writes the contents of "SearchResponse" to a file. How can I get the contents into a string variable instead?
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>>Try something like this:
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>>XmlSerializer xmlizer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(SearchResponse));
>>StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
>>xmlizer.Serialize(sw, iw.SearchResponse);
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>Hi Paul,
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>Can you suggest how I can get the following into a string instead of a file?
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>FileStream fs = new FileStream("c:/xmlresponse2.xml", FileMode.Create);
>fs.Write(m_searchresponse.Manifest[0].Content.Value, 0, m_searchresponse.Manifest[0].Content.Value.Length);
>fs.Close();
>

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Maybe (assuming m_searchresponse.Manifest[0].Content.Value is a byte[]) :

string result = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(m_searchresponse.Manifest[0].Content.Value);