Need Simple way to access XML in VB.Net - Pain with Linq-to-Xml

Question

Dim myXDoc As XDocument = _

I want to access this in a simple way in VB.Net - Like:

Dim Integer SizeXStr = CInt(MyZDoc.Cameras(1).Camera_Desc.@SizeX) ' where (1) is an index

Why isn't this implemented in VB.Net? Better yet, type the values with a Schema and eliminate the conversion. Is this so hard?

How do I access, in a simple way, data in XML - this would be VERY VERY useful!

I have been using Query to try to get the values - when I use MsgBox() to display results, they display, but my main Windows Form is Trashed - changed colors, etc. The system has Bugs.

Instead, I have to create an elaborate structure of arrays of objects and read the XML line-by-line and do the same for saving - this is the dark ages.

Art

Answer 1

XPathExpression and/or XPathNavigator?

Answer 2

I'm not sure of your problem but you're probably missing a .ToString() in there somewhere that MsgBox is implicitly calling for you. Turn Option Explicit and Option Strict on fix those (and other) problems. Anyway Given the following variable(VB 2008):

    Dim myXDoc = <cameras>
                     <camera>
                         <description SizeX="10"/>
                     </camera>
                     <camera>
                         <description SizeX="12"/>
                     </camera>
                 </cameras>

You can get an integer using:

Dim SizeX = Integer.Parse(myXDoc.<camera>(0).<description>.@SizeX)