creating xml document with flexible path

I have a program that has a login form. Once the user logs in, a folder will be created in the root folder under the username. And in the program, the user will be able to create an xml document. How do I go about configuring the code below so that each xml document will be stored inside each user's respective folder instead of just hard coding?

Dim mywriter1 As System.Xml.XmlTextWriter

mywriter1 = New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\FYP\admin\monitorconfig.xml", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

Dim mywriter1 As System.Xml.XmlTextWriter
Dim userPath as String

userPath = ...whatevercodeyou used to create the folder and determine the filename ....

mywriter1 = New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(userPath, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

stw wrote:

Dim mywriter1 As System.Xml.XmlTextWriter Dim userPath as String userPath = ...whatevercodeyou used to create the folder and determine the filename .... mywriter1 = New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(userPath, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

:-D... that's trivial.
if you are talking about putting at some relative directory to the web apps's root, then Server.MapPath is probably what you are looking for.

regards,
choongseng

On another note:

Why are you doing this ? Your solution will have huge scaliability problems once your users number into the hundreds. Do not forget that you have to set each folders' attributes as well for security or other purposes and I forsee other problems --- Duplicate Folder names, Portability of Folders should hosting environment change, Granular Access Control, etc

A good Web Application doesnt try to create folders in any directories.

This may be a good time to go into Normalizations and Keys.

Anyway its part of my project requirement that creating folders according to users ought to be done. Hm it can't seems to work, can ya guys help?

*My login form codes

Private Sub btnlogin_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnlogin.Click

Dim cn As New OleDb.OleDbConnection

Dim cm As New OleDb.OleDbCommand

Dim dr As OleDb.OleDbDataReader

Dim username As String = txtusername.Text

Dim password As String = txtpassword.Text

Try

cn.ConnectionString = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("ConnectionString")

cn.Open()

cm.Connection = cn

cm.CommandText = "Select * From admin where username='" & username & "' and password='" & password & "'"

dr = cm.ExecuteReader()

'dr.Read()

If dr.HasRows Then

System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(username, False)

If Directory.Exists(Server.MapPath(username)) = False Then

' creates the directory

Directory.CreateDirectory(Server.MapPath(username))

End If

Response.Redirect("http://localhost/FYP/frmabout.aspx?Username=" + txtusername.Text)

Else

lblerror.Text = "Incorrect username or password!"

End If

Catch ex As Exception

lblerror.Text = ex.Message

End Try

End Sub

* I want to configure the xml document path to be created in the user's folder

Dim mywriter1 As System.Xml.XmlTextWriter

mywriter1 = New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\FYP\admin\monitorconfig.xml", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

It would be really helpful if you can tell us the exception or else how are we going to know where it went wrong (db ? creating folder permissions ? hosting ? etc)

Erm nothing is wrong. I only want to know how do I actually configure the below lines of code so that the xml file would be created in the user's folder. Thanks.

Dim mywriter1 As System.Xml.XmlTextWriter

mywriter1 = New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\FYP\admin\monitorconfig.xml", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

forlorn wrote:

Erm nothing is wrong. I only want to know how do I actually configure the below lines of code so that the xml file would be created in the user's folder. Thanks. Dim mywriter1 As System.Xml.XmlTextWriter mywriter1 = New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\FYP\admin\monitorconfig.xml", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

hmm... as what stw mentioned...

mywriter1 = New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\FYP\" & username & "\monitorconfig.xml", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

are you saying some thing as simple as above?

regards,
choongseng