Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Work with XML Directly Within Your Code (VB Only)

You can embed XML directly within your Visual Basic code. This can make creating XML messages and executing queries against XML a simple task in VB. To support this feature, VB enables you to write straight XML when using the data types called System.Xml.Linq.XElement and System.Xml.Linq.XDocument. The former enables you to create a variable and assign it an XML element. The latter, XDocument, is used to assign a variable to a full XML document.

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What we cover here is how VB enables you to write XML code. The two objects (XElement and XDocument) are still important to C# developers. However, C# developers work with the properties and methods of these objects directly and not write and parse ...