I'm sorry I didnt see anything in the documentation that talks about how to create and ultimately bind a BO to an XML file. I looked at the XMLDataSourceSample and I saw that you did it, I just dont understand how to get to that point. I'm assuming you cant use the Business Object Mapper to map to the xml file and create the partial class.



Could you maybe help me get a jump start on how to do this?



Thanks

That is an excellent question, Mike...

I would venture to say that you would want to copy the data from the XML file into SQL Server and run the query

No, really, you'll probably need to use some of the objects within the System.Xml.XPath namespace (in the System.Xml.dll assembly) or maybe figure out how to use XQuery... however I have never used either of those technologies, so I wouldn't know where to start, though you might Google XQuery or XPath and see what sort of info you can find on it.

The XPath namespace has some objects you can use to create an XML cursor, so if worst comes to worst, you could cursor through the records to find the one that you want, but I'm pretty sure XQuery supports XML indexes, so it should be lots faster.