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copied!<p>There are a couple of ways you can load up a DataGrid with XML (there are others as well):</p> <ol> <li>Using an <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.data.xmldataprovider.aspx" rel="nofollow">XmlDataProvider</a></li> <li>Reading the XML in from the code-behind</li> </ol> <p>Here's a very crude sample that uses both methods.</p> <p><strong>XAML</strong></p> <pre><code><Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MyDataGrid" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="MyDataGrid" Height="300" Width="300"> <Window.Resources> <XmlDataProvider x:Key="BookData" Source="C:\Somewhere\Books.xml" XPath="Data"/> </Window.Resources> <StackPanel> <DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Elements[Book]}" AutoGenerateColumns="False" Height="Auto" Name="dataGrid1" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"> <DataGrid.Columns> <DataGridTextColumn Header="Author" Binding="{Binding Path=Element[Author].Value}"/> <DataGridTextColumn Header="Title" Binding="{Binding Path=Element[Title].Value}"/> <DataGridTextColumn Header="Version" Binding="{Binding Path=Element[Version].Value}" /> </DataGrid.Columns> </DataGrid> <DataGrid DataContext="{StaticResource BookData}" ItemsSource="{Binding XPath=Book}" AutoGenerateColumns="False" Height="Auto" Name="dataGrid2" Margin="0,25,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"> <DataGrid.Columns> <DataGridTextColumn Header="Author" Binding="{Binding XPath=Author}"/> <DataGridTextColumn Header="Title" Binding="{Binding XPath=Title}"/> <DataGridTextColumn Header="Version" Binding="{Binding XPath=Version}" /> </DataGrid.Columns> </DataGrid> </StackPanel> </Window> </code></pre> <p><strong>Code Behind</strong></p> <pre><code>using System.Windows; using System.Xml.Linq; namespace WpfApplication1 { /// <summary> /// Interaction logic for MyDataGrid.xaml /// </summary> public partial class MyDataGrid : Window { public MyDataGrid() { InitializeComponent(); var xml = XDocument.Load( "c:\\Somewhere\\Books.xml" ).Root; dataGrid1.DataContext = xml; } } } </code></pre> <h2>For Reference</h2> <p>Finally, here are a couple of articles:</p> <ol> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.data.binding.xpath.aspx" rel="nofollow">Binding.XPath Property on MSDN</a></li> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc700358.aspx#id0190068" rel="nofollow">Customize Data Display with Data Binding and WPF > Using XML Data</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpfsdk/archive/2008/11/25/a-datagrid-sample-using-xml-data.aspx" rel="nofollow">A DataGrid sample using XML data</a></li> </ol>

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