C# & XML should take the blue pill ;-)

[antoine orchus tech]

Hi! My real name is Antoine Dubuc, and I'm screwed! :omg: I have an xml document with his sidekick schema, and they're both doing fine. There's this textbox that would like to be filled with data from our trusty XML file. So being ignominously screwed in attempting to muster some sense from F1 ( who writes this anyway!???) I am here to ask you some advice. How can I open my xml file, search it to find the right element, say 'First Name', and have it displayed inside the textbox? I know, you are probably thinking ... :laugh: ... I'm a beginner in XML, hence this qustion from which I'd be grateful to receive some specific code example ;) :) Thank you! Antoine Orchus Technologies Coding is a family business

[Chris Maunder]

Use the .NET Xml* classes to load the XML file, then you can search through the resultant XML tree to find the right element, then (I assume you're doing this within the Page_Load event of an ASP.NET page) set the text of the appropriate text input element in your ASP.NET page by setting the TextBox.Text property as the value of the element in the XML tree. cheers, Chris Maunder

[antoine orchus tech]

The project for this is a Windows Form project. What classes ?! I mean, I'm a beginner, I tried XmlDataDocument and I load the xml file into it. Ok. Now, what do I use to search the right node and output the element to the textbox? :) Thank you :) Antoine Coding is a family business

[J Dunlap]

Hi, The following code loads the text in the tag "/root/firstname" of the file "c:\xmlfile.xml" into a textbox named "FirstNametextbox".

System.Xml.XmlDocument xmlDoc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();

xmlDoc.Load(@"c:\xmlfile.xml");
XmlNode node = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode(@"/root/firstname");
FirstNametextbox.Text=node.InnerText;

HTH, J Dunlap

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[Karavaev Denis]

Try this: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/app\_config.asp ===================== http://wasp.elcat.kg

[antoine orchus tech]

Thank you very much! :) Antoine Coding is a family business

[Manster]

Add the using System.Xml; line of code to the top of your project. This will allow you to use most of the xml .Net classes. The XmlDocument, XmlNode, XmlNodeList, XmlElement, and XmlAttribute classes are the ones you'll use the most.