Arnold Matusz's Blog

In my post about LINQ to XML - XPath I've mentioned how Microsoft warns about the performance bottleneck when using LINQ to XML with the Extension class from the System.Linq.XPath namespace.

"There is some performance penalty for using these methods. Using LINQ to XML queries yields better performance. So it is only advisable to use such LINQ to XML with XPath queries if and only if your application won't suffer from the slight loss of performance!"

LINQ to SQL may be dying these days, and to be frank that’s not a big deal as the Entity Framework is out which will 100% replace it. But LINQ as a concept is something new and won’t be out for some time!

While doing some configuration work I got into a sitation where I needed to query an XML file. Immediately my thoughts went to LINQ, and in term LINQ to XML. It is a great addition to the LINQ family but in terms of readability it’s far cry away from the old days when XPath was in use. » Continue reading ...