How to save a .net XML Document to a path with an & in it

Question

I am saving an XMLDocument object to disk using the Save (string) function. When I do this I get a "Could not find a par of the path" error.

I have tried passing the characters as "&", "&", "%26", "\26", and "\38". What am I missing? Note that I am not talking about the content of the file -- but the filename.

Dim todocument As New Xml.XmlDocument
todocument.LoadXml(fromXml.OuterXml)
todocument.Save(toPath)

Answer 1

& (ampersands) are perfectly legal to put in a filename/path. 2 things to check.

1. make sure the destination folder is there
2. try saving it to a filestream object instead.

Answer 2

My particular problem was not that the &'s weren't encoded -- my '\'s in the path were encoded and they weren't supposed to be.