how to read data from xml file

Question

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
<user>
  <username>prince</username> 
  <password>user1</password> 
</user>

This is my xml file name as user.xml.

Now when i click the button in the page, i need to get the data from that file and place that data in variable like:

string strusername =  data  cmg from  xml file (prince)
string strPassword =  data  cmg from  xml file (password)

Can anyone tell me how to do this with syntax?

thank you

Answer 1

LINQ to XML is the modern way to do what you want, see here

 XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load("user.xml");
 string strusername =  xDoc.Descendants(XName.Get("username")).First().Value;
 string strPassword = xDoc.Descendants(XName.Get("password")).First().Value;

Answer 2

You could try something like the XmlReader, XmlTextReader and XmlDocument. They are all relatively straight forward to use.