Read XML and create Objects using LINQ in VB.NET

Question

With the following code below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
    <escuelas>
    <escuela>
    <estudiante>noe</estudiante>
    <fechaCreacion>2017-11-21T00:11:26.748-05:00</fechaCreacion>
    <idE>1</idE>
    <nombre>joao</nombre>
    <profesor>maria</profesor>
    </escuela>
    </escuelas>

Note: I am working with REST in a Web Service, so when adding a new object the service returns me an xml with all objects, however, I haven’t found a way to read this data yet.

Answer 1

To work with XML vc you have some tools available in . Net Framework.
The Xpath and the Xmlserializer.
In Xmlserializer vc creates a class structure that corresponds to the XML structure you are loading, using annotations to determine whether values are in elements or attributes and calls the class’s Deserialize method to load all information to the structure you defined.

If what you want is simply to search for one or more specific values within Xml, Xpath is the right one. The link below explains how to use it:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/programming-guide/concepts/linq/how-to-filter-on-an-attribute-xpath-linq-to-xml

Abs and good work!