Entity Framework with XML Files [closed]

Solution 1:

Entity Framework itself is provider-based, and is designed to operate over a relational database. If you really wanted to, you could write your own provider for EF that reads from/writes to an xml file, but it would be a huge amount of work.

I expect you should really be looking at one of:

• LINQ-to-XML
• XML (de)serialization
• XPath/XQuery
• XSLT

Entity Framework doesn't have a natural fit in this scenario.

Solution 2:

Linq to XML isn't all that much actually. I'd go with a serializable solution instead.

Solution 3:

I like LINQ to XSD: http://linqtoxsd.codeplex.com/

It is basically LINQ to XML with some classes derived from the XSD to ensure it fits the schema...