How to Write Data into XML Using Windows Forms Application in C#.Net

In this article i would like to explore a How to Write Data into XML Using Windows Forms Application in C#.Net.


For this We need to Follow the following  Steps
1.Take New Windows Forms Application
2.Design a Form as follows
3.Add The empty XML File
4.Now Implement the logic as follows




For all the 1 to 3 steps follow this link How To Read data From XML File Using Windows Forms Application Using C#.Net

Form should be as follows

Write Data into XML File

Write the following Code:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.Data.SqlClient;

namespace XML

{

    public partial class Form2 : Form

    {

        public Form2()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }

        SqlConnection con;

        SqlDataAdapter da;

        DataSet ds;

        private void Form2_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            con = new SqlConnection("Server=.;uid=sa;pwd=abc;database=employee");

            da = new SqlDataAdapter("select *from employee", con);

            ds = new DataSet();

            da.Fill(ds, "x");

            dataGridView1.DataSource = ds.Tables[0];

        }

        private void btnBrowse_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            openFileDialog1.Filter = "XML Files|*.Xml|All Files|*.*";

            openFileDialog1.ShowDialog();

            txtFileName.Text = openFileDialog1.FileName;

        }

        private void btnWrite_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            ds.WriteXml(txtFileName.Text);

            MessageBox.Show("Data has written into XML File", "Message");

        }

    }

}

Output:

Write Data into XML File

Now you can open and see your XML File it looks Like this

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>

<NewDataSet>

  <x>

    <empid>1</empid>

    <name>ravinn</name>

    <address>hyd</address>

    <designation>Devloper</designation>

    <salry>20000</salry>

    <createtime>2011-01-01T00:00:00+05:30</createtime>

  </x>

  <x>

    <empid>2</empid>

    <name>Ram</name>

    <address>KPHB</address>

    <designation>dsdddd</designation>

    <salry>1000</salry>

    <createtime>2011-01-01T00:00:00+05:30</createtime>

  </x>

  <x>

    <empid>4</empid>

    <name>abc</name>

    <address>abc</address>

    <designation>aba</designation>

    <salry>15230</salry>

    <createtime>2011-01-01T00:00:00+05:30</createtime>

  </x>

  <x>

    <empid>5</empid>

    <name>cbvv</name>

    <address>ghvghvghv</address>

    <designation>ghgvgvgh</designation>

    <salry>524545</salry>

    <createtime>2014-04-19T14:13:34.5+05:30</createtime>

  </x>

  <x>

    <empid>6</empid>

    <name>abc</name>

    <address>abc</address>

    <designation>abc</designation>

    <salry>50000</salry>

    <createtime>2014-04-19T14:13:45.467+05:30</createtime>

  </x>

  <x>

    <empid>7</empid>

    <name>Veerendra</name>

    <address>KPHB</address>

    <designation>SSE</designation>

    <salry>000000000000</salry>

    <createtime>2014-01-01T00:00:00+05:30</createtime>

  </x>

</NewDataSet>