XML as a Datasource for Framework 2.0

There have been a lot of questions going around about XML and .Net Framework 2.0. Jesse Liberty attempts to answer some of them in his article on the subject: “.NET 2.0 pushes most of ADO.NET into the frameworks level, and provides you with various DataSource controls to make accessing data easy. With the XML DataSource control, you can bind to an XML document just as easily as you bind to tables in a database. If the XML document you load is hierarchical, the data is exposed hierarchically, which makes it ideal to map an XML document to a TreeView control.

To get started, fire up Visual Studio 2005 (or Visual Web Developer) and create a new web site named BindingToXML. Create a new item, an XML file named BookList.xml, and add it to the project.”

The rest of the article is beautifully illustrated with screenshots and instructions to hopefully demystify the process of adding XML as a data source in .Net Framework.

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