Chapter 24. LINQ to XML

In Chapter 23, you were introduced to Language Integrated Queries (LINQ) with an example that was able to query an object model for relevant customer-order information. While LINQ does provide an easy way to filter, sort, and project from an in-memory object graph, it is more common for the data source to be either a database or a file type, such as XML. In this chapter you will be introduced to LINQ to XML, which makes working with XML data dramatically simpler than with traditional methods such as using the document object model, XSLT, or XPath.