Then there is the COmega language from Microsoft Research that permits embedding XML directly in the source code - with strong typing. SQL statements and XQuery too. Exciting stuff.

http://research.microsoft.com/comega/doc/comega_tutorial_content_classes.htm">http://research.microsoft.com/comega/doc/comega_tutorial_content_classes.htm

http://research.microsoft.com/comega/

That said, yay for multi-line strings!

another method would be using \ ... for example if you wanted to strip <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> out of your newly transformed file (xsl) ... you could do this:

StreamReader fsnew = new StreamReader(filenamenew,Encoding.UTF8);
string streamstring = fsnew.ReadToEnd();

streamstring = streamstring.Replace("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>", "");

FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(filenamenew);
StreamWriter sw = fi.CreateText();
sw.Write(streamstring);
sw.Close();
fi = null;
sw = null;

tank you very much.actually i am one of the few who didnt know that issue.

Thanks for posting. This actually helped.

thanks a lot for this code

Thanx a lot....i needed a quick and u came to rescue

groovy.  I'm glad you had the guts to ask.  I had the same question.

hey , this is cool. keeep up the good work..

gd point

that was helpful..just got into this trouble and found a quick answer...thanks

Thanks very much

Thanks! You're still saving random developers a lot of hair-pulling via google ;)

This (double quote solution) does not seem to work if I have a semi-colon ; in my string that needs to be wrapped around quotes, for example, in my text driver connection string I need to wrap extended properties around double quotes.

           connectionString = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + importFolder + ";"

                               + "Extended Properties='text;HDR=No;FMT=Delimited;'";

On further investigation, it seems like it isn't the ; that is the problem. It is that whether I use \" or "" to include the literal quote character, it is not working. My environment is VS2005 Standard on Win XP.

< a href="bytes.com/.../thread225840.html">Another person in following thread is having same issue.</a>

:(

Uh, yeah. I knew that!

Thanks!

thx!

Thanks.  This does work, but not under all circumstances.

I'm having issues constructing a SQL string from variables.  I have to put double quotes around each value, and the fact that I'm piecing together a string from parts appears to be preventing me from using either the backslash or the double-double quote.  

Neither approach works when using + to concatenate strings together.

Thanks.It helped me.

thanks!!! Really helped me out - needed a quick answer.

Wouldn't "\"" work?

yes "\""  is working