I had a very small project, where there would be page that lists events, another page that adds events. I didnt want to have a database for this simple pages, so i decided to go on with xml file. My xml file structure is basically like below:
Now i need a pagethat will list all the events (hopefully ordering them according to When attribute which is a datetime. so i created a page put a label on the page, and open the code behind file.
What i want to do is, open the xml file, order them, and dump the data into the label, so i decided to use linq, as i am learning this new technique. Below is the simple code for this, linq made it so easy for me to parse the xml; unbelievable:
BTW you could do the exact same thing with xmldatasource and xpath, however; i am not sure with ordering :), ordering wont be that easy i guess with xmldatasource, here is the page that does the above listing with xmldatasource and gridview and xpath:
