What are the best methods for reading and writing XML documents in C#? In this course, Working with XML in C#, you will learn foundational knowledge to process XML files and use XML to enhance your business applications. First, you will learn to process XML documents using LINQ to XML. Next, you will discover how to write XPath queries. Then, you see how to add, edit and delete data within an XML document. XML serialization is explored to show you how to save a .NET object to an XML file, and then restore that XML as a .NET object. Finally, you will explore how to cache frequently used database data as a local XML file, and to detect when server data changes so you can update your local file. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of XML needed to process XML documents in C#.
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

• Course Overview
  1min
• XML, Schemas and XML/XSD Generators
  11mins
• Using the System.Xml.Linq Namespace to Manipulate XML
  17mins
• Load, Write, Validate, and Save XML Documents
  21mins
• Query and Aggregate XML Using XPath
  26mins
• Query and Aggregate XML Using LINQ to XML
  24mins
• Serialize and Deserialize .NET Objects as XML
  27mins
• Cache Frequently Used Data as XML
  14mins