How to Read values from XML file

Question

I have a XML document called RESTORE.XML It hold these values..

<EmployeeDetails>
  <EmployeeID>156824</EmployeeID>
  <EmployeeName>ALEX</EmployeeName>
  <EmployeeAge>29</EmployeeAge>
</EmployeeDetails>

From my c# application i want to read these three values and store it in 3 different variables.

How can do it using c# ? Thanks.

Answer 1

This should work:

using System.Xml.Linq;
XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load("RESTORE.XML");
xdoc.Descendants("EmployeeID").First().Value;
xdoc.Descendants("EmployeeName").First().Value;

Answer 2

try this:

            XElement xml = XElement.Parse(@"
<EmployeeDetails>
  <EmployeeID>156824</EmployeeID>
  <EmployeeName>ALEX</EmployeeName>
  <EmployeeAge>29</EmployeeAge>
</EmployeeDetails>");

            int EmployeeID = int.Parse(xml.Element("EmployeeID").Value);
            string EmployeeName = xml.Element("EmployeeName").Value;
            int EmployeeAge = int.Parse(xml.Element("EmployeeAge").Value);

but replace the parse with a load of your xml file instead...