How to prevent System.Xml.XmlException: Invalid character in the given encoding

Question

I have a Windows desktop app written in C# that loops through a bunch of XML files stored on disk and created by a 3rd party program. Most all the files are loaded and proce

Answer 1

Not sure if this is your case, but this can be related to invalid byte sequences for a given encoding. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Invalid_byte_sequences.

Try filtering invalid sequences from the file while loading.