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I am trying to produce a JSON file after parsing it.

In the code below, I am choosing the path to where the specified JSON file is going to appear.

public class Movie 

{

    public string Name { get; set; }

    public int Year { get; set; }

}



class Parsing

{

    static void Main(string args)

    {

        //Just a movie object for the sake of testing

        Movie movie = new Movie

        {

            Name = "Bad Boys",

            Year = 1995

        };



        try

        {

            // serialize JSON to a string and then write string to a file

            File.WriteAllText(@"c:\Users\LOrdBenche\source\repos\parsingTest\parsingTest\producedJSON", JsonConvert.SerializeObject(movie));



            // serialize JSON directly to a file

            using (StreamWriter file = File.CreateText(@"c:\Users\LOrdBenche\source\repos\parsingTest\parsingTest\producedJSON"))

            {

                JsonSerializer serializer = new JsonSerializer();

                serializer.Serialize(file, movie);

            }

        }

        catch (UnauthorizedAccessException e)

        {

            Console.WriteLine(e.ToString());

        }

    }

}

However, the issue is that I keep having an UnauthorizedAccessException. I have given access to the folder and I have also tried running the program as an administrator.

Everything I found online suggested those two methods, yet they didn't work.

You are both using a verbatim string literal (@"") and escaping your path's backslashes. The @ before a string literal will cause it to ignore escaped backslashes. So it's literally trying to write to c:\Users\LOrdBenche\source\repos\parsingTest\parsingTest\producedJSON, which is an invalid path in Windows.

On top of that, you are only providing a folder in the path. File.WriteAllText() and File.CreateText() require a file name and file extension as well.

Also, you should probably move your path to a const variable:

const string path = @"c:UsersLOrdBenchesourcereposparsingTestparsingTestproducedJSONtest.json";



// ...



File.WriteAllText(path, JsonConvert.SerializeObject(movie));



// ...



using (StreamWriter file = File.CreateText(path))



// ...

I believe your code should work.
You could try to open the command prompt and type

cd c:UsersLOrdBenchesourcereposparsingTestparsingTestproducedJSON

then

dir > test.txt

If you get an "Access is denied" message, it's because you really don't have sufficient rights to write into that folder.