How to close instance of an XML DOCUMENT?

How to dispose or close an instance of XML Document in ASP.NET

• There's a problem, wherein a XML Document.Save is resulting in the error the process cannot access the file, because it is being used by another process or the statement an Invalid XML Document.I think it's because I do not dispose the XML Document object after it's operation is complete.Is it possible to do this.Is there a workaround?

• Answer:

  It depends on which overload of the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.save.aspx method you are using. If you pass directly a filename as string there shouldn't be issues. If you pass a stream or xmlwriter you need to ensure that it is properly disposed: using (Stream stream = ...) { doc.Save(stream); }