Unwanted error when execute the EXE file. But it worked in visual studio application, what is issues here?

Question

1.00/5 (1 vote)

See more:

Hi Friends,
I have work with some XML operation. I have developed a Console application, I didn't face any issues in xml loading part running with visual studio.

but when I run the EXE file with command prompt, I have faced XML loading issue.
What is the solution here?

What I have tried:

C#

public XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
string xml="E:\before.xml";
xmlDoc.LoadXml(xml);

Posted 16-Jun-19 22:26pm

Member 10242311

Updated 17-Jun-19 1:04am

Add a Solution

Comments

Nirav Prabtani 17-Jun-19 4:34am

What is an error ?

Member 10242311 17-Jun-19 4:44am

C:\Users\201875>E:\Files\AutoUpdater.exe E:\Updater\00560-ch0003_Release_141_Jan2019.docx E:\Updater\00560-ch0003_before.xml
Invalid XML document. The document does not have a root element.

In this second line is the error. this is happened only running with executable files in command prompt.

Richard MacCutchan 17-Jun-19 5:37am

Please show the content of your XML file. And what is the Word document being passed in for?

Patrice T 17-Jun-19 4:35am

"I have faced XML loading issue."
Our issue is that your didn't told us what is your issue.

Member 10242311 17-Jun-19 4:55am

C:\Users\201875>E:\Files\AutoUpdater.exe E:\Updater\00560-ch0003_Release_141_Jan2019.docx E:\Updater\00560-ch0003_before.xml
Invalid XML document. The document does not have a root element.

In this second line is the error. this is happened only running with executable files in command prompt.

Patrice T 17-Jun-19 5:02am

Use Improve question to update your question.
So that everyone can pay attention to this information.

F-ES Sitecore 17-Jun-19 4:37am

"\" is a special character, to use it in a file path do something like

string xml=@"E:\before.xml";

Given it works ok in VS it's unlikely that's the problem though, as said above the error message tells you why it has failed, if you don't post the error message then no-one can help you.

Member 10242311 17-Jun-19 4:44am

C:\Users\201875>E:\Files\AutoUpdater.exe E:\Updater\00560-ch0003_Release_141_Jan2019.docx E:\Updater\00560-ch0003_before.xml
Invalid XML document. The document does not have a root element.

In this second line is the error. this is happened only running with executable files in command prompt.

F-ES Sitecore 17-Jun-19 4:58am

That's an issue with the xml, it needs to have a single root item so this is valid

<person>
.... other nodes
</person>

This isn't

<person>
.... other nodes
</person>
<person>
.... other nodes
</person>

Because there are two elements at the root level

Member 10242311 17-Jun-19 5:05am

XML has single item only as root, this working fine when running with visual studio. but not working run as an executable file in a command prompt

F-ES Sitecore 17-Jun-19 5:10am

You're probably not reading the file you think you're reading. Add some debug outputs to the console app where you console.writeline the full path of the file you're reading.

Member 10242311 17-Jun-19 7:08am

XML has a single root element only.

Member 10242311 17-Jun-19 4:49am

string xml="E:\before.xml"; is changed and gets the values from command line argument.

C:\Users\201875>E:\Files\AutoUpdater.exe "E:\Updater\00560-ch0003_Release_141_Jan2019.docx" "E:\Updater\00560-ch0003_before.xml"

still im facing the issues

2 solutions

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2019-06-16T22:56:00

If it works in dev but fails in production, then the most likely reason is simply that your data is different, and the file(s) you are reading in production are not valid XML files.

Start by logging the file paths your code uses in production when it fails (a try...catch block helps with this) and include the actual data in the log if it's not too big. That way, you can do a post crash analysis to find out what exactly your user is trying to work with, and use that in dev to reproduce the problem and fix it.
But without that? You are just guessing what the problem might be and cannot solve it!

lmoelleb · Answer 2 · 2019-06-17T01:05:00

As suggested most likely just different data. For example trying to load the word document as XML. And as suggested you can output the exact path etc to try to find out what is going on.

As an alternative, if you can reproduce the error on your development system try adding the following method call at the start of your program then compile it and run from the command line again:
Debugger.Launch Method (System.Diagnostics) | Microsoft Docs[^]

When it is running you will see what looks like an error message. But it isn't - it is a message that allows you to debug the application, without having to start it from Visual Studio.

This method does not work if it is only reproducible on a system without development tools. In that case better log output is the way to go.

Unwanted error when execute the EXE file. But it worked in visual studio application, what is issues here?

2 solutions

Solution 1

Solution 2

Add your solution here

Preview 0