Linq to xml question

Hi all,

I have a xml document which contains:

<users>
<user id="000000126836">
<loginname>Bart</loginname>
</user>
<user id="600000126836">
<loginname>Piet</loginname>
</user>
</users>

Now I want to retreive just one user with a certain id. I have tried this
code but it doesn't retreive anything.

public string GetLoginName(string buttonID)
{
XDocument userList = XDocument.Load("users.xml");

var query =
from users in userList.Descendants("user")
where (string)users.Attribute("id") == buttonID
select new
{
loginname = (string)users.Element("loginname"),
};

return ?????????
}

Now my question is what is wrong with my query and how can i return the
Login

Thanks in advance,

Bart

[Tim Jarvis]

<bwrote:

Hi all,

I have a xml document which contains:

<users>
<user id="000000126836">
<loginname>Bart</loginname>
</user>
<user id="600000126836">
<loginname>Piet</loginname>
</user>
</users>

Bart

Hi Bart,

<Maxwell Smart VoiceMissed it by that much />

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
XElement users = XElement.Load(@"C:\Temp\Users.Xml");
try
{

string login = (from xe in users.Descendants("user")
where (string)xe.Attribute("id") ==
"600000126835"
select
(string)xe.Element("loginname")).Single();
textBox1.Text = login;
}
catch(Exception error)
{
MessageBox.Show(error.Message);
}
}

This will give you an exception if the ID is not found that you can
then simply handle, or if you prefer you could use the SingleOrDefault
method to just return an empty string if not found.

Regards Tim.

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