Work with XML Directly Within Your Code (VB Only)
You can embed XML directly within your Visual Basic code. This can make creating XML messages and executing queries against XML a simple task in VB. To support this feature, VB enables you to write straight XML when using the data types called System.Xml.Linq.XElement and System.Xml.Linq.XDocument. The former enables you to create a variable and assign it an XML element. The latter, XDocument, is used to assign a variable to a full XML document.
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What we cover here is how VB enables you to write XML code. The two objects (XElement and XDocument) are still important to C# developers. However, C# developers work with the properties and methods of these objects directly and not write and parse ...
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