read xml by linq in c#

Reading data from Linq in c#,  It is very simple and less line of code to read data from XML. It consist of XDocument to load the xml data

Need to import the 

using System.Xml.Linq;

@XML Sample

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

<root>

  <Employee name="Bob" Phonenumber="344343433" >

   

  </Employee>

  <Employee name="julie" Phonenumber="1212121212" >

  </Employee>

 

</root>

@Code Snippet To read XML in C# using Linq;

class Program

    {

        ///

        /// Main method

        ///

        ///

        public static void Main(String[] args)

        {

            //Load xml

            XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(@"E://Employee.xml");

            //Run query

            var lv1s = from lv1 in xdoc.Descendants("Employee")

                       select new

                       {

                           name = lv1.Attribute("name").Value,

                           Phonenumber = lv1.Attribute("Phonenumber").Value

                           //  Children = lv1.Descendants("Detail") // it used to read the desedent

                       };

            //Loop through results

            foreach (var lv1 in lv1s)

            {

                Console.WriteLine("Name : " + lv1.name + " -- Phone Number : " + lv1.Phonenumber);

             /*   foreach (var lv2 in lv1.Children)

                    result.AppendLine("     " + lv2.Attribute("name").Value); * // Reading children values*/

            }

        }

    }

@OutPut