Windows Phone 7– Duh Moment Of The Day

So I wrote this code block in a Windows Phone 7 application:

1         private void CreateNewLogFile()
2         {
3             string logFileLocation = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData);
4             if (File.Exists(logFileLocation))
5                 File.Delete(logFileLocation);
6  
7         }
8 

And I got this exception:

And it hit me – can’t write to the local file system of the emulator using Windows Desktop/Server constructs. To write in a Windows Phone 7 application, I need to write to the local storage.  However, since I can’t read from local storage easily (no WindowsExplorer access) – I would need to write a program to get the data out.  This seems more trouble than it is worth.  I’ll just write to the Debug window….