XDocument: saving XML to file without BOM

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Use an XmlTextWriter and pass that to the XDocument’s Save() method, that way you can have more control over the type of encoding used:

var doc = new XDocument(
    new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", null),
    new XElement("root", new XAttribute("note", "boogers"))
);
using (var writer = new XmlTextWriter(".\\boogers.xml", new UTF8Encoding(false)))
{
    doc.Save(writer);
}

The UTF8Encoding class constructor has an overload that specifies whether or not to use the BOM (Byte Order Mark) with a boolean value, in your case false.

The result of this code was verified using Notepad++ to inspect the file’s encoding.

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