Pull XML Data Out Into Grid

Introduction

Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in XML in C#.

Question: What is pulling XML data out into grid?

In simple terms "It provides flexibility to pull out the data from XML and bind the data into a grid."

Step 1: Create a new "ASP.NET Web Application", as in:
 

Output1.jpg
 

Step 2: The complete code of Employee.xml looks like this:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<Employees>

  <Employee>

    <Id>1</Id>

    <FirstName>Vijay</FirstName>

    <LastName>Prativadi</LastName>

    <Age>26</Age>

  </Employee>

  <Employee>

    <Id>2</Id>

    <FirstName>Swetha</FirstName>

    <LastName>Prativadi</LastName>

    <Age>23</Age>

  </Employee>

</Employees>


Step 3:
The complete code of webform1.aspx looks like this:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="SelectXMLDataApp._Default" %>

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head id="Head1" runat="server">

    <title></title>

</head>

<body>

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

    <center>

        <div>

            <table>

                <tr>

                    <td colspan="2">

                        <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Pull XML Data out into Grid" Font-Bold="true"

                            Font-Size="Large" Font-Names="Verdana" ForeColor="Maroon"></asp:Label>

                    </td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                    <td colspan="2" align="center">

                        <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Pull XML Data" Font-Names="Verdana"

                            Width="213px" BackColor="Orange" Font-Bold="True" OnClick="Button1_Click" />

                    </td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                    <td colspan="2" align="center">

                        <br />

                        <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" BackColor="LightGoldenrodYellow" BorderColor="Tan"

                            BorderWidth="1px" CellPadding="2" EnableModelValidation="True" ForeColor="Black"

                            GridLines="None" AutoGenerateColumns="False">

                            <AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="PaleGoldenrod"></AlternatingRowStyle>

                            <FooterStyle BackColor="Tan"></FooterStyle>

                            <HeaderStyle BackColor="Tan" Font-Bold="True"></HeaderStyle>

                            <PagerStyle HorizontalAlign="Center" BackColor="PaleGoldenrod" ForeColor="DarkSlateBlue">

                            </PagerStyle>

                            <SelectedRowStyle BackColor="DarkSlateBlue" ForeColor="GhostWhite"></SelectedRowStyle>

                            <Columns>

                                <asp:BoundField DataField="Id" HeaderText="Emp Id" ReadOnly="true" />

                                <asp:BoundField DataField="FirstName" HeaderText="First Name" />

                                <asp:BoundField DataField="LastName" HeaderText="LastName" />

                                <asp:BoundField DataField="Age" HeaderText="Age" />

                            </Columns>

                        </asp:GridView>

                    </td>

                </tr>

            </table>

        </div>

    </center>

    </form>

</body>

</html>


Step 4:
The complete code of webform1.aspx.cs looks like this:

 

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Data;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.IO;

using System.Xml;

namespace SelectXMLDataApp

{

    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page

    {

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

        }

        protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            XmlTextReader objTextReader = new XmlTextReader(Server.MapPath("Employee.xml"));

            XmlDataDocument objDocument = new XmlDataDocument();

            objDocument.DataSet.ReadXml(objTextReader, XmlReadMode.InferSchema);

            DataSet objDataSet = objDocument.DataSet;

            GridView1.DataSource = objDataSet;

            GridView1.DataBind();

        }

    }

}

Step 5:
The output of the application looks like this:
 

Output2.png
 

Step 6: The pulled out data from XML looks like this:

 Output3.png

I hope this article is useful for you.

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