In this blog we will know how to import data from xml file to the database.

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

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

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head runat="server">

<title>Untitled Page</title>

</head>

<body>

<form id="form1" runat="server">

<div>

</div>

<br />

<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server">

</asp:GridView>

<asp:Button ID="btn_insert" runat="server" onclick="btn_insert_Click"

Text="Insert Records" />

<asp:Button ID="btn_show" runat="server" onclick="btn_show_Click"

style="height: 26px" Text="Show Records" />

</form>

</body>

</html>

using System;

using System.Configuration;

using System.Data;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Security;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;

using System.Xml.Linq;

using System.Data.SqlClient;

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

{

string connStr = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString"].ConnectionString;

protected void btn_insert_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connStr);

DataSet reportData = new DataSet();

reportData.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("test.xml"));

SqlBulkCopy sbc = new SqlBulkCopy(con);

sbc.DestinationTableName = "employee";

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("TALLY_REC_ID_CODE", "empid");

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("CLUSTER_ID", "empname");

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("UNIT_TYPE", "empaddress");

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("VPRC_ID", "empcity");

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("SHG_ID", "empstate");

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("PIP_NO", "empzip");

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("NAME_OF_THE_MEMBER", "emplic");

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("TYPE_OF_LOAN", "empstatus");

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("PRINCIPAL", "empp");

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("INTEREST", "empi");

con.Open();

sbc.WriteToServer(reportData.Tables[0]);

con.Close();

Label1.Text = "Records inserted successfully";

}

protected void btn_show_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connStr);

con.Open();

DataSet reportData = new DataSet();

reportData.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("test.xml"));

GridView1.DataSource = reportData;

GridView1.DataBind();

con.Close();

}

}