AutoTest: A LINQ to XML Example System

Microsoft's LINQ technology combined with XML can revolutionize the way you program, but it's difficult to make the transition from more traditional ways of programming to LINQ. Moving to XML can be a challenge.

A reader asked for help programming a system to generate random test questions. Since it seemed like an ideal way to showcase LINQ, I wrote most of the code as a programming example.

The problem with LINQ is not the concepts, it's the syntax. In general, you know what you want to do and you're pretty sure LINQ can do it. But getting the code just right can be very frustrating. So this article concentrates on just why you need all those symbols in the code and in a lot of cases, the different way the symbols can be written is shown.

Or ... Maybe you need an AutoTest program. The complete code is downloadable. To read the article Click Here.