XmlWriterSettings.CloseOutput Property

Property Value

Type: System.Boolean
true to also close the underlying stream or TextWriter; otherwise false. The default is false.

            Dim settings As New XmlWriterSettings()
            settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = True
            settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment
            settings.CloseOutput = False

            ' Create the XmlWriter object and write some content.
            Dim strm As New MemoryStream()
            Using writer As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(strm, settings)
                writer.WriteElementString("orderID", "1-456-ab")
                writer.WriteElementString("orderID", "2-36-00a")
                writer.Flush()
            End Using

XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment;
settings.CloseOutput = false;

// Create the XmlWriter object and write some content.
MemoryStream strm = new MemoryStream();
using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(strm, settings))
{
    writer.WriteElementString("orderID", "1-456-ab");
    writer.WriteElementString("orderID", "2-36-00a");
    writer.Flush();
}

// Do additonal processing on the stream.