Create an XML file with VB.NET

Create an XML File with VB.NET

To create an XML file using VB.NET, we need to use the XmlWriter or XmlTextWriter classes.

The XmlTextWriter class is derived from XmlWriter class, which represents a writer that provides fast non-cached forward-only way of generating XML documents based on the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 specification.

In this article, I will show you how to use XmlWriter class to create an XML document and write data to the document.

The XmlWriter class belongs to the 'System.xml' Namespace.So we need to import the particular namespace using the following line in our script.

Imports System.xml    

The create method allows you to specify the features to support on the created XmlWriter using XmlWriterSettings. This settings class has options for indentation, new lines, encoding and XML conformance level.

Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Dim settings As New XmlWriterSettings() settings.Indent = True settings.NewLineOnAttributes = True Using writer As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create("C:\xmlfile.xml", settings) writer.WriteStartDocument() writer.WriteStartElement("person") writer.WriteStartElement("contacts") writer.WriteStartAttribute("name") writer.WriteValue("details") writer.WriteEndAttribute() writer.WriteStartElement("firstname") writer.WriteString("manu") writer.WriteEndElement() writer.WriteStartElement("lastname") writer.WriteString("abraham") writer.WriteEndElement() writer.WriteStartElement("email") writer.WriteString("manu@manuabraham.info") writer.WriteEndElement() writer.WriteEndElement() writer.WriteEndDocument() writer.Flush() writer.Close() End Using End Sub

The above code will create the xml file named 'xmlfile.xml' on drive "C" and will looks like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <person> <contacts name="details"> <firstname>manu</firstname> <lastname>abraham</lastname> <email>manu@manuabraham.info</email> </contacts> </person>

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