Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Writing XML Markup in VB with XML Literals

The System.Xml.Linq namespace is powerful. Manipulating complex XML documents that store a lot of data can lead to writing less elegant and more complex code. Luckily, the Visual Basic language provides a powerful feature for manipulating XML documents, known as XML literals. You can write XML markup together with the Visual Basic code. The following code provides an example:

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'The compiler infers XDocumentDim Contacts = <?xml version="1.0"?>            <Contacts>                <Contact LastName="Del Sole"                    FirstName="Alessandro"                    Age="37"                    email="[e-mail]"/>                <!-- Fantasy name--> ...