For a comparison of LINQ to XML to the Document Object Model (DOM), see [LINQ to XML vs. DOM](linq-xml-vs-dom.md). LINQ to XML is implemented on top of <xref:System.Xml.XmlReader>, and they're tightly ...

After you have created an XML tree or loaded an XML document into an XML tree, you can query it to find elements and attributes and retrieve their values. You retrieve collections through the axis ...

I'm getting no love from Stackoverflow, so I'm re-posting here. Hopefully someone can tell me if what I'm expecting / trying to accomplish is realistic or how to better approach it: Right now, I'm ...

The three technologies are: XML literals, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Factory Services and LINQ. XML literals and LINQ are new in Visual Basic 9 (VB9). LINQ gives us a common syntax for ...

One of the great things about .NET Framework is that there is so much included to make your life as a developer easier. Over the past few years we've been flooded with new capabilities. Staying ...

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I started playing with LINQ-to-XML stuff the other night and holy crap is it ever nicer than what I was doing before! I have a random question though as I can't find a really good comprehensive ...

Abstract: The Language‐Integrated Query (LINQ) pattern is established on the basis of a group of methods called standard query operators (SQOs). Most of these methods operate on sequences, where a ...