[XML] Reading Visual Studio Project file

[kareninstructor]

Hope this helps.

I tried the following in VS2008 reading a VS2010 project file

Imports <xmlns:alias="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim doc = XDocument.Load("DynamicClassXML.vbproj")

        Dim Query = (From P In doc...<alias:Project> _
                    Where P.@ToolsVersion = "4.0" _
                    Select P).FirstOrDefault


        Console.WriteLine("[{0}]", Query.ToString)
    End Sub
End Class

which returned everything. Then I tried for a smaller chunk

Imports <xmlns:alias="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim doc = XDocument.Load("DynamicClassXML.vbproj")

        Dim Query = (From P In doc...<alias:Project> _
                    Where P.@ToolsVersion = "4.0" From X In P.<alias:PropertyGroup> _
                                                  Where X.<alias:AssemblyName>.Value = "VB 10 Generic Iterator Sample" _
                    Select X).FirstOrDefault


        Console.WriteLine("[{0}]", Query.ToString)
    End Sub
End Class