How to process XML data into collection in c#.NET?

Something like this perhaps.

In practice, of course, xmlData would be read from the database:

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Xml.Linq;

// ....

string xmlData =

XElement customer = XElement.Parse(xmlData);

var customerData = new Dictionary();

foreach(XElement element in customer.Elements())

{

customerData.Add(element.Name.ToString(), element.Value);

}

// print to a MessageBox

string message = "";

foreach(string key in customerData.Keys)

{

message += String.Format("{0} : {1}\r\n", key, customerData[key]);

}

MessageBox.Show(message);