How to Dynamically Bind XML to a WPF DataGrid in C#

Question

I looked around for this, but all the examples I could find used XAML, which made the solution too static. Here is what I want to do:

I would like to populate a DataGri

Answer 1

Thank you to everyone who took the time to read or respond to my request. I figured out how to do this and am including a code snippet below:

using System.Xml.Linq;    // Required for XElement...
using System.Collections; // Required for Hashtable

private void InitGridFromXML(string xmlPath)
{
    var data = XElement.Load(xmlPath);

    // Set Grid data to row nodes (NOTE: grid = DataGrid member)
    var elements = data.Elements("row");
    grid.ItemsSource = elements;

    // Create grid columns from node attributes.  A hashtable ensures
    // only one column per attribute since this iterates through all
    // attributes in all nodes.  This way, the grid can handle nodes with
    // mutually different attribute sets.
    var cols = new Hashtable();
    foreach (var attr in elements.Attributes())
    {
        var col = attr.Name.LocalName;

        // Only add col if it wasn't added before
        if (!cols.Contains(col))
        {
            // Mark col as added
            cols[col] = true;

            // Add a column with the title of the attribute and bind to its
            // value
            grid.Columns.Add(new DataGridTextColumn
            {
                Header = col,
                Binding = new Binding("Attribute[" + col + "].Value")
            });
        }
    }
}