How to loading XML files from a file

Answer 1

Well it looks like you're nearly there:

XDocument loaded = XDocument.Load(@"C:\Menu_Settings.xml");

var q = from c in loaded.Descendants("module")
        where (int)c.Attribute("ModuleID") < 0
        select new
        {
             Text = (string) c.Attribute("Text"),
             ModID = (string) c.Attribute("ModID"),
             ModuleID = (int) c.Attribute("ModuleID"),
             MenuType = (int) c.Attribute("MenuType"),
             Perm = (bool) c.Attribute("Perm")
        };

If that doesn't help you, please give more details.

Answer 2

Or you can in the last step cast to XElement and use whatever XElement has to offer:

instead of var q:

IEnumerable<XElement> q =from c in loaded.Descendants("module") 
                    where (int)c.Attribute("ModuleID").Value < 0 
                    select c;

foreach(XElement e in q){
   string t = e.Attribute("Text").Value;
   // etc...
}

if you know one record is going to be return

XElement q = (from c in loaded.Descendants("module") 
                    where (int)c.Attribute("ModuleID").Value < 0 
                    select c).First(); // one of many options to return a single record

sring t = q.Attribute("Text").Value;
// etc...

UPDATE

to make further queries to your result:

IEnumarble<XElement> menus = q.Elements("menu");

then loop foreach, you can use menuselement.Element("tag_name").Value to get string values of the nodes, or menuselement.Attribute("attr_name").Value to get attribute values, and you can further query with menuslement.Find or menuselement.Where or menuselement.Select and the options are really limitless... here is where you can learn more: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387065.aspx

And here is MSDN's how to query xml using linq: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb943906.aspx