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windows-phone-8
alfah
alfah

Reputation: 2085

Location of folders created in Windows Phone 8

Where do I find the location of the folders and text files I created in windows phone 8. Can we see it in the explorer like we search for the app data in Windows 8? I'm not using IsolatedStorage, instead Windows.Storage. I want to check if the folders and files are created as I want.

This is how I write the file

IStorageFolder dataFolder = await m_localfolder.CreateFolderAsync(App.ALL_PAGE_FOLDER, CreationCollisionOption.OpenIfExists);
        StorageFile PageConfig = null;

        try
        {
            PageConfig = await dataFolder.CreateFileAsync("PageConfig.txt", CreationCollisionOption.OpenIfExists);
        }
        catch (FileNotFoundException)
        {
            return false;
        }

EDIT

        try
        {
            if (PageConfig != null)
            {
                using (var stream = await PageConfig.OpenStreamForWriteAsync())
                {
                    DataWriter writer = new DataWriter(stream.AsOutputStream());
                    writer.WriteString(jsonString);
                }

            }

        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            string txt = e.Message;
            return false;
        }

And this is how I read the file from the folder

        try
        {
            var dataFolder = await m_localfolder.GetFolderAsync(App.ALL_PAGE_FOLDER);
            var retpng = await dataFolder.OpenStreamForReadAsync("PageConfig.txt");

            if (retpng != null)
            {
                try
                {
                    using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(retpng))
                    {
                        jsonString = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
                    }

                    return jsonString;
                }
                catch (Exception)
                {
                }
            }
        }
        catch (FileNotFoundException)
        {
        }

There are also other folders created. I dont receive any exceptions while writing but when I read the string is empty.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4579

Answers (3)

kodyaz
kodyaz

Reputation: 1

The command line tool that comes with Windows Phone SDK 8.0 is Isolated Storage Explorer (ISETool.exe) which reside in "Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0\Tools\IsolatedStorageExplorerTool" folder for default installation ISETool.exe is used to view and manage the contents of the local folder

Upvotes: 0

alfah
alfah

Reputation: 2085

With the help of Windows Phone Power tools, I figured out that there was no text being written in file. So I converted string to byte and then wrote it to the file and it works! Don't know why the other one does not work though..

using (var stream = await PageConfig.OpenStreamForWriteAsync())
{
   byte[] fileBytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(jsonString);                       
   stream.Write(fileBytes, 0, fileBytes.Length);
}

Upvotes: 0

Paul Annetts
Paul Annetts

Reputation: 9604

Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.LocalFolder(MSDN link here) is another name for Isolated Storage that is in Windows.Storage namespace. The only other location you can access is your app's install directory (and only read-only).

You can use Windows Phone Power Tools to browse what files are in your app's Isolated Storage, or the command line tool that comes with the SDK.

Upvotes: 1

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