Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step

Chapter 18. Data access for Windows Store apps

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

• Data binding in XAML

• Use the XDocument and XElement classes in the System.Xml.Linq namespace.

• Reading an XML file

• Searching for items in an XML file

In this chapter, you’ll continue working with data in a Visual Studio 2013 application. In Chapter 17 you learned how to establish a connection to a database by using the Data Source Configuration Wizard and how to bind Windows Forms controls to an Access database and extract records. Accessing data is conceptually similar in a Windows Store app, although the process of binding data to XAML controls is somewhat different. You’ll learn the syntax in this chapter, and the information that you access will come ...