Need to assign value from xml file to string variable in .net

Well, here is a quick way to get it with XPath; you could also look at something like LINQ to XML or modify this to pull back only a single value:

using System.Xml;

using System.Xml.XPath;

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

try      

{          

     doc.Load(filePathToXml);  

     // get an xpath navigator  

     XPathNavigator navigator = doc.CreateNavigator();

     // look for the path and use an iterator to capture the results

     XPathNodeIterator nodes = navigator.Select(@“//GateWay/Collection/strpwd”);

     while (nodes.MoveNext())

     {

          XPathNavigator node = nodes.Current;

          yourVariable = node.InnerXml;   

          return;               

      }   

}

catch (Exception ex)       

{

     MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Error");    

     return;       

}