{"id":3485,"date":"2012-03-14T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T13:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2012-03-14T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:26:22","slug":"dataset-readxml-throws-directorynotfoundexception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/dataset-readxml-throws-directorynotfoundexception\/","title":{"rendered":"DataSet.ReadXML throws DirectoryNotFoundException"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A .NET application that reads a dataset from an XML using the DataSet.ReadXML<\/a> method might throw the exception : System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException<\/font><\/a>: Could not find a part of the path ‘<path of XML file>’.<\/font><\/p>\n

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According to MSDN this exception is thrown when when \u201cpart of a file or directory cannot be found\u201d .However, this exception is not only thrown when a file cannot be found on the disk. The exception is also thrown when the structure of the XML is invalid<\/strong> (for instance because you didn\u2019t close a node)<\/p>\n

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Example<\/h4>\n

Good structure<\/strong><\/p>\n

<books>\n   <title>Xml For Dummies<\/title>\n   <author>Lucinda Dykes, Ed Tittel<\/author>\n   <URL>https:\/\/books.google.nl\/books\/about\/Xml_For_Dummies.html?id=T0zQVjBTlzAC&#38;redir_esc=y<\/a><\/URL>\n<\/books><\/pre>\n
Bad structure<\/strong><\/p>\n
<books>\n   <title>Xml For Dummies<\/title>\n   <author>Lucinda Dykes, Ed Tittel   <\u2014 something is missing here\n   <URL>https:\/\/books.google.nl\/books\/about\/Xml_For_Dummies.html?id=T0zQVjBTlzAC&#38;redir_esc=y<\/a><\/URL>\n<\/books><\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Validate in code<\/h4>\n
Before you read an XML file using the DataSet.ReadXML<\/a> method, always validate the XML file (against a schema). This can easily be done by first reading the XML file with the XmlReaderSettings<\/a> or  XmlValidatingReader<\/a> class. By validating the XML file you\u2019re always sure the structure of the file is correct and the ReadXML method won\u2019t raise a bogus event. <\/p>\n
Microsoft has supplied us with some examples here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Validate manually<\/h4>\n
You can validate your XML file manually by opening the XML file in Internet Explorer. If the file structured correct you\u2019\u2019ll be able to expand and collapse the nodes.<\/p>\n
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A .NET application that reads a dataset from an XML using the DataSet.ReadXML method might throw the exception : System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path ‘<path of XML file>’. According to MSDN this exception is thrown when when \u201cpart of a file or directory cannot be found\u201d .However, this exception is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[426,239,241],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vb-net-scripting","tag-directorynotfoundexception","tag-readxml","tag-vb-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}