How to assign plain XML to C# variable [duplicate]

Question

Possible Duplicate:
Use XML Literals in C#?

I can do this in Visual Basic, How can I do this in C#

    Dim xmlTree As XElement = <Employees></Employees>

Answer 1

Try:

XDocument document = XDocument.Parse("<Employees></Employees>")

or

XElement root = new XElement("Employees")

Another way is using XmlDocument class:

XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument();
document.LoadXml("<Employees></Employees>");

but I recommend to use XDocument. It is newer than XmlDocument, it has more clean API and support Linq To Xml.

Answer 2

XDocument document = XDocument.Parse("<Employees></Employees>")