How can I get C# to create the path of an XML output file if it doesn't already exist?

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Is there a way that I can have my Visual Studio C# project create the folders specified in my XML output location (if they don't already exist?) I'm using C# with Visual Studio 2012. When I deploy this project, it won't write the XML files because the path location doesn't exist and it won't create it.

Posted 9-Oct-12 7:24am

joshrduncan2012

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Oct-12 13:31pm

Is MSDN broken? How about Google or Bing then? They are, too? Too bad... :-)
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-09T07:30:00

This is how: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directory.createdirectory%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

Read carefully: you don't really need to check up if the directory already exists. It will be created or not, but in both cases you will be able to create files in this directory, unless you have an exception related to invalid directory name, insufficient permissions, and the like.

—SA