Did you know that you can use XML instead of a SQL database for applications? Did you know there is LINQ to XML that allows you to process XML documents quickly and efficiently? If the answer is no to either of these two questions, then you need to watch this course. XML files are very common in today’s programming world. You will most likely need to read files, write files and query XML within your applications. .NET provides a rich set of XML processing classes that you can use to perform all these functions. C# allows you to easily create, read and query XML files using XPath, LINQ to XML and other methods. In this course you will learn to read and write XML files using the various .NET classes. You will see some real-world uses of XML files in applications.
Author Name: Paul D. Sheriff
Author Description:
Paul has over thirty years of experience architecting information systems and his expertise is in much demand from Fortune 500 companies. Paul is a Pluralsight author, has published 400+ articles, and authored over 14 books on topics ranging from JavaScript, Angular, C#, SQL Server and many .NET technologies. Paul is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups.

Table of Contents

• What is this XML Thing Anyway?
  19mins
• A Myriad of Methods to Read XML
  47mins
• 16 Ways to Write XML Documents
  33mins
• Real World Uses of XML
  15mins
• LINQ to XML Step-by-Step
  85mins
• Use XML: An Alternative to SQL
  61mins