XmlDocument.Load Vs XmlDocument.LoadXml

Question

I just came across with a problem using XmlDocument.LoadXml.

The application was crashing, giving the following error:

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Answer 1

XmlDocument.Load is used to load XML either from a stream, TextReader, path/URL, or XmlReader. XmlDocument.LoadXml is used to load the XML contained within a string.

They're fundamentally different ways of loading XML, depending on where the XML is actually stored. So it sounds like you were using the wrong method for where your XML is.