Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

LINQ Queries with XML Literals

XML literals provide an alternative syntax for LINQ to XML queries in Visual Basic code. Let’s look at the first XML document used in “The System.Xml.Linq Namespace” section again, which looks like the following but with a slight modification:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Contacts>  <Contact FirstName="Alessandro"        LastName="Del Sole"        Age="37"        Email="[e-mail]">  </Contact>  <!--The following are fantasy names-->  <Contact FirstName="Stephen"        LastName="Red"        Age="40"        Email="[e-mail]">  </Contact>  <Contact FirstName="Robert"        LastName="White"        Age="41"        Email="[e-mail]"> ...