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Introducing LINQ to XML
As a .NET developer, you are bound to encounter XML-based data in numerous places. Application and web-based configuration files store information as XML. Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, and Windows Workflow Foundation all make use of an XML-based grammar (XAML) to represent desktop UIs, browser-based UIs, and workflows, respectively. ADO.NET DataSets can easily save out (or load in) data as XML. Even Windows Communication Foundation stores numerous settings as the well-formatted string called XML.
Although XML is indeed everywhere, programming with XML has historically been very tedious, very verbose, and very complex if one is not well versed in a great number of XML technologies (XPath, ...
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