Quote Originally Posted by kevininstructor View Post
The following links should give you some ideas on how to work with XML with LINQ, read xml from disk to a dataset, looping thru data read from a physical file then inserted into a database table (in this case SQL-Server). So in short you should be able to construct code that best suits you for your task.

http://vb.net-informations.com/xml/v...t-database.htm
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.71).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb688087.aspx
This is all well and good. I looked over these links and they have alot of information. As I am self-teaching myself how to program, I try to find very basic tutorials on the items I am learning. The" See dick & Jane run" type series.

The links are great, but I am trying to locate information that starts at the very beginning for accessing XML files. The tutorials that explain why we have to have or do each step, in order to achieve the end result we want.

I havent found any beginners books referenced, noted or identified that might help me in my quest. So, If you know of books, online tutorials or anything that might start from scratch with VS 2008 and XML files.

Thanks
Richard