July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
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:
'The compiler infers XDocumentDim Contacts = <?xml version="1.0"?> <Contacts> <Contact LastName="Del Sole" FirstName="Alessandro" Age="37" email="alessandro.delsole@visual-basic.it"/> <!-- Fantasy name--> ...