Pull XML Data Out Into Grid

Introduction

Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in XML in C#.

Question: What is pulling XML data out into grid?

In simple terms "It provides flexibility to pull out the data from XML and bind the data into a grid."

Step 1: Create a new "ASP.NET Web Application", as in:

Step 2: The complete code of Employee.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<FirstName>Vijay</FirstName>

<LastName>Prativadi</LastName>

</Employee>

<FirstName>Swetha</FirstName>

<LastName>Prativadi</LastName>

</Employee>

</Employees>

Step 3: The complete code of webform1.aspx looks like this:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="SelectXMLDataApp._Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

</head>

<body>

<div>

<table>

<tr>

<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Pull XML Data out into Grid" Font-Bold="true"

Font-Size="Large" Font-Names="Verdana" ForeColor="Maroon"></asp:Label>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Pull XML Data" Font-Names="Verdana"

Width="213px" BackColor="Orange" Font-Bold="True" OnClick="Button1_Click" />

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<br />

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" BackColor="LightGoldenrodYellow" BorderColor="Tan"

BorderWidth="1px" CellPadding="2" EnableModelValidation="True" ForeColor="Black"

GridLines="None" AutoGenerateColumns="False">

</PagerStyle>

<asp:BoundField DataField="Id" HeaderText="Emp Id" ReadOnly="true" />

<asp:BoundField DataField="FirstName" HeaderText="First Name" />

<asp:BoundField DataField="LastName" HeaderText="LastName" />

<asp:BoundField DataField="Age" HeaderText="Age" />

</Columns>

</asp:GridView>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</div>

</center>

</form>

</body>

</html>

Step 4: The complete code of webform1.aspx.cs looks like this:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Data;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.IO;

using System.Xml;

namespace SelectXMLDataApp

{

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page

{

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

}

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

XmlTextReader objTextReader = new XmlTextReader(Server.MapPath("Employee.xml"));

XmlDataDocument objDocument = new XmlDataDocument();

objDocument.DataSet.ReadXml(objTextReader, XmlReadMode.InferSchema);

DataSet objDataSet = objDocument.DataSet;

GridView1.DataSource = objDataSet;

GridView1.DataBind();

}

}

Step 5: The output of the application looks like this:

Step 6: The pulled out data from XML looks like this:

I hope this article is useful for you.

Pull XML Data Out Into Grid

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