Writing strings to file

[John]

Hi

Is there any easy way to write strings into a file for debugging purposes?

Thanks

Regards

[Harry]

Re: Writing strings to file


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Hi
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Is there any easy way to write strings into a file for debugging purposes?
>
Thanks
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Regards
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You will need a reference to System.IO

Using sw As New StreamWriter(My FileName, True) 'last parameter tells sw to
append to file

sw.WrileLine(My Text)
End Using

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RE: Writing strings to file

I suggest looking into Tracing. It's very powerful and allows you to log to
files, xml, event log and more. I wrote code that makes it even more powerful
that will appear in the next update of my open source assembly located at

http://codeplex.com/dotnettips

David

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"John" wrote:

Hi
>
Is there any easy way to write strings into a file for debugging purposes?
>
Thanks
>
Regards
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>
>

[sloan]

Re: Writing strings to file


Here is some C# code.

This can write to your computers temp directory and "pop it" in notepad.


But I would also look at a complete logging solution.



private void WriteAndOrPopDe bugMessage(stri ng msg)
{
bool popTextFile = false;

bool generateTempFil e = false;

//set those values to config file settings
popTextFile =true;//better to read from config file
generateTempFil e =true;//better to read from config file

if (popTextFile || generateTempFil e )
{
string fileName = WriteToTempFile (string.Empty, msg);
if (popTextFile)
{
System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt(fileName);
}
else
{
Console.WriteLi ne(fileName);
}
}
}

public string WriteToTempFile (string prefix, string toWrite)
{

string fileName = System.IO.Path. GetTempFileName ();
fileName = fileName.Replac e(".tmp", ".txt");
return WriteAFile(file Name, prefix, toWrite);

}


public string WriteAFile(stri ng fileName , string prefix, string
toWrite)
{

System.IO.Strea mWriter writer = null;
System.IO.FileS tream fs = null;

try
{

// Writes text to a temporary file and returns path

fs = new System.IO.FileS tream(fileName,
System.IO.FileM ode.Append, System.IO.FileA ccess.Write);
// Opens stream and begins writing
writer = new System.IO.Strea mWriter(fs);
writer.BaseStre am.Seek(0, System.IO.SeekO rigin.End);
writer.WriteLin e(toWrite);
writer.Flush();

return fileName;

}
finally
{
if (null != writer)
{
writer.Close();
}
if (null != fs)
{
fs.Close();
}
}
}






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Hi
>
Is there any easy way to write strings into a file for debugging purposes?
>
Thanks
>
Regards
>