Sharpening Your Axis With Visual Basic 9

Visual Basic 9 has a new set of language features that allows developers to work with XML in a much more productive way using a new API called "LINQ to XML." LINQ stands for "Language Integrated Query," and it lets programmers write queries for objects, databases, and XML in a standard way. Visual Basic provides deep support for LINQ to XML through XML literals and XML axis properties. These features let the user use a familiar, convenient syntax for working with XML in the Visual Basic code. LINQ to XML is a new, in-memory XML programming API specifically designed to leverage the LINQ framework.