.Net 3.5 had some nice tricks in it. LINQ-to-XML was one of them. With the new "X"-types, you can make working with XML really easy.

VB.Net 9 takes it one step further, and lets you write XML in your code without strings.

"Hey Rich, that’s old news," I hear you say. "And who’s interested in VB today anyway?"

Well, apparently there are a lot of VB-er’s still out there. I am mainly a C# developer myself, but I found that VB was perfect for a problem I had recently -  loading of XML data into a SQL Server table.

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