title: How to download a file from SkyDrive into IsolatedStorage?
body: <p>I am writing  a WP8 (XAML &amp; C#) application to read a text file from SkyDrive and save it into the IsolatedStorage.  </p>
  
  <p>It seems that the file is read, but the data I get is the description of the file rather than the content of the file.</p>
  
  <p>The file name in SkyDrive is: "myFile1.txt"<br>
  The content of the file is: "this is a test file 1"</p>
  
  <p>my code is below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>private async void btnDownload_Click( object sender, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs e )
      {
      string fileID = "file.17ff6330f5f26b89.17FF6330F5F26B89!1644";
      string filename = "myDownloadFile1.txt";
      var liveClient = new LiveConnectClient( LiveHelper.Session );
  
      // Download the file
      liveClient.BackgroundDownloadAsync( fileID, new Uri( "/shared/transfers/" + filename, UriKind.Relative ) );  
  
      // Read the file
      var FileData = await LoadDataFile&lt; string &gt;( filename );
      Debug.WriteLine( "FileData: " + (string)FileData );
      }
  
  
  public async Task&lt;string&gt; LoadDataFile&lt;T&gt;( string fileName )
      {
      // Get a reference to the Local Folder
      string root = ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder.Path;
      var storageFolder = await StorageFolder.GetFolderFromPathAsync( root + @"\shared\transfers" ); 
  
      bool IsFileExist = await StorageHelper.FileExistsAsync( fileName, storageFolder );
      if ( IsFileExist == true )
          {
          StorageFile storageFile = await storageFolder.GetFileAsync( fileName );
          if ( storageFile != null )
              {
              // Open it and read the contents
              Stream readStream = await storageFile.OpenStreamForReadAsync();
              using ( StreamReader reader = new StreamReader( readStream ) )
                  {
                  string _String = await reader.ReadToEndAsync();
                  reader.Close();
                  return _String;
                  }
              }
          else
              {
              return string.Empty;
              }
          } 
      return string.Empty;
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The data I am getting running this code is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
     "id": "file.17ff6330f5f26b89.17FF6330F5F26B89!1644", 
     "from": {
        "name": "Eitan Barazani", 
        "id": "17ff6330f5f26b89"
     }, 
     "name": "myFile1.txt", 
     "description": "", 
     "parent_id": "folder.17ff6330f5f26b89.17FF6330F5F26B89!1643", 
     "size": 23, 
     "upload_location": "https://apis.live.net/v5.0/file.17ff6330f5f26b89.17FF6330F5F26B89!1644/content/", 
     "comments_count": 0, 
     "comments_enabled": false, 
     "is_embeddable": true, 
     "source": "https://fculgq.bay.livefilestore.com/y2m0zkxi9kpb4orfYNSLSwst5Wy3Z7g6wDj7CM3B6wcOth9eA-gUflXeSCAAH_JWx2co72sgOTcGgvkwQGI3Gn5E1qXnRoKpVbsX_olRrB5gnCNIm8GrUrORco8_-je1cet/myFile1.txt?psid=1", 
     "link": "https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=17ff6330f5f26b89&amp;page=view&amp;resid=17FF6330F5F26B89!1644&amp;parid=17FF6330F5F26B89!1643", 
     "type": "file", 
     "shared_with": {
        "access": "Just me"
     }, 
     "created_time": "2013-07-15T16:29:10+0000", 
     "updated_time": "2013-07-15T16:29:10+0000"
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am not sure why I am not getting the data inside the file. Any idea what am I doing wrong?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,</p>