Entity Framework with XML Files [closed]

Question

Can someone point me to a good tutorial explaining the Entity Framework using an XML file instead of a database? I have seen some good tutorials with SQL databases, but I can't make the leap to an XML file.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Entity Framework itself is provider-based, and is designed to operate over a relational database. If you really wanted to, you could write your own provider for EF that reads from/writes to an xml file, but it would be a huge amount of work.

I expect you should really be looking at one of:

• LINQ-to-XML
• XML (de)serialization
• XPath/XQuery
• XSLT

Entity Framework doesn't have a natural fit in this scenario.