Parse XML and populate in List Box

Question

I\'m a newbie to C#.

I want to develop C# List box in Windows Form. I found this link to be helpful. But the input to the List box will be an XML of th

Answer 1

You could use Linq to XML to do it like this.

XDocument xmldoc = XDocument.Load(xmlStream);
var items = (from i in xmldoc.Descendants("item")
             select new { Item = i.Element("SEL").Value, Value = i.Element("VALUE").Value }).ToList();

listBox1.DataSource = items;
listBox1.DisplayMember = "Item";
listBox1.ValueMember = "Value";

Answer 2

Using Linq-to-XML, you can do this:

public partial class item
{
    public object CHK { get; set; }
    public int SEL { get; set; }
    public string VALUE { get; set; }
}

and somewhere in your code:

XDocument lbSrc = XDocument.Load("yourfile.xml");

List<item> _lbList = new List<item>();

foreach (XElement item in lbSrc.Descendants("item"))
{
   _lbList.Add(new item { CHK= item.Element("CHK").Value, 
                          SEL = Convert.ToInt32(item.Element("SEL").Value), 
                          VALUE = item.Element("VALUE").Value });
 }

and then assign that to your listbox:

lbYourListbox.DataSource = _lbList;
lbYourListbox.DisplayMember = "VALUE";
lbYourListbox.ValueMember = "SEL";

That should do it!