LINQ to XML

I had the opportunity to play around with LINQ to XML today for a real-world project.

I have to admit I am LOVING how easy it is to whip out an XDocument with some XElements in only a couple of lines of code.

var xmlData = new XElement("Transactions", 
              from trans in dc.Transactions
                select new XElement("Transaction",
                  new XElement("Date", trans.Date),
                  new XElement("Amt", trans.Amt)));

It's pretty flexible in that if you dont want the generic var, you could actually create a strongly typed XElement instead.

This makes it a snap to do things like create a single XDocument - and then piece together the document from different data sources or database servers.