XML literals, WCF factory services and LINQ, taken by themselves, are very useful. When these are combined, you get a completely different picture for solving real-world problems. All while ...

With LINQ to XML, it now becomes much easier to manipulate XML using C# and VB. Eric White describes how one can perform XSLT style transformations using C# 3.0.

Test-Drive SQL Server Data Services: C# 3.0, LINQ to XML: Autogenerate REST XML Entity Templates: Listing 1 A SqlDataReader instance and LINQ to XML functional construction combine to enable ...

I realized the LINQ-to-XML query that I was creating was taking the *values* out of the XML and copying them to a new object. Ergo, there is no direct link back to the XML.