I get what server.mappath does, My problem is creating the xml file in the 
file system. I need to everytime this function runs, create a new xml file to 
store in the file system(not overwriting previous files). How do I 
programmatically create the actual file. I know how to write the xml to an 
already created xml file. Doing something write 
xmlwriter.create(server.mappath("export101.xml")) comes back with the error 
can't find virtual path, which is of course because export101.xml doesn't 
exist yet. How can i create the export101.xml to write to?

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

> YoungLady wrote:
> > Ok I see that, but I want to create a new file each time. How do I 
> > programmatically create a new file to save to? This : 
> > (Server.MapPath("~/exports/export" & 
> > replace(now.date.tostring, "/", "-") & ".xml"))
> > Doesn't exist, yet anyhow, I need to create the actual file on the file 
> > system first.
> 
> Server.MapPath only helps you to construct the right file path, mapping 
> virtual server directories to local file paths. Then you can pass that 
> file path to the XmlWriter.Create method as already suggested, that will 
> create the file if needed or overwrite if the file already exists.
> 
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> 
> 	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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