New Visual Basic LINQ to XML Videos Released

Language-Integrated Query capabilities of LINQ to XML is the fact that LINQ to XML represents a new, modernized in-memory XML Programming API. LINQ to XML was designed to be a cleaner, modernized API, as well as fast and lightweight. LINQ to XML uses modern language features (e.g., generics and nullable types) and diverges from the DOM programming model with a variety of innovations to simplify programming against XML. Even without Language-Integrated Query capabilities LINQ to XML represents a significant stride forward for XML programming.

Because LINQ to XML provides a fully featured in-memory XML programming API you can do all of the things you would expect when reading and manipulating XML. A few examples include the following:
Load XML into memory in a variety of ways (file, XmlReader, and so on).
Create an XML tree from scratch.
Insert new XML Elements into an in-memory XML tree.
Delete XML Elements out of an in-memory XML tree.
Save XML to a variety of output types (file, XmlWriter, and so on).