How To Display XML File in Combobox Using VB.net

How To Display XML File in Combobox Using VB.net

What is xml?

XML is a software- and hardware-independent tool for storing and transporting data.

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What is XML?

• XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language
• XML is a markup language much like HTML
• XML was designed to store and transport data
• XML was designed to be self-descriptive
• XML is a W3C Recommendation

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Source : https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_whatis.asp

Now i want focus on how to display data from XML file in combobox.

• Open your text editor (like sublimeText or notepad)

Type the following xml content, then save with file name : category.xml

On my computer i save category.xml on the following place >> D:\category.xml

• Open your Vb.net

On form1 design put one ComboBox, name it ComboBox1, see picture below:

• Double click on form area and then type the following code in Form1_Load:

Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Dim dom As New Xml.XmlDocument dom.Load("d:\category.xml") ComboBox1.Items.Clear() For Each node As Xml.XmlNode In dom.SelectNodes("//book/category") ComboBox1.Items.Add(node.InnerText) Next End Sub

• Run the project and look at the combobox, it will be filled with category data from the category.xml file

Thank you, hopefully useful.

#Loading xml value into combobox