Save data to an xml file and retrieve the data to a Gridview

In this blog we will know how to save data to an xml file and retrieve the data to a Gridview.Here we have to provide one value in the Xml file manually as

 

Data.xml

 

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>

<studentdata>

  <student>

    <sid>s001</sid>

    <sname>Raj</sname>

    <saddress>Pune</saddress>

    <smarks>100</smarks>

  </student>

</studentdata>

 

 

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="Saving_User_Input_Data_to_an_XML._Default" %>

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >

<head runat="server">

    <title>Untitled Page</title>

</head>

<body>

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

    <div>

    <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Student Id" Width="100px"></asp:Label>

        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox><br />

        <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text="Student Name" Width="100px"></asp:Label>

        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server"></asp:TextBox><br />

        <asp:Label ID="Label3" runat="server" Text="Student Marks" Width="100px"></asp:Label>

        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox3" runat="server"></asp:TextBox><br />

        <asp:Label ID="Label4" runat="server" Text="Student Address"></asp:Label>

        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox4" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

      </div>

    <br />

    <asp:Button ID="btnaddrecords" runat="server" onclick="btnaddrecords_Click"

        Text="Add Records" />

    <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server">

    </asp:GridView>

    <asp:Button ID="btn_showdata" runat="server" onclick="btn_showdata_Click"

        Text="Show Xml Data" />

    </form>

</body>

</html>

 

 

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.Configuration;

using System.Data;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Security;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;

using System.Xml.Linq;

using System.Data.SqlClient;

namespace Saving_User_Input_Data_to_an_XML

{

    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page

    {

      

        static DataSet ds;

        static DataTable dt;

        static DataRow dr;

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            if (!IsPostBack)

            {

                ds = new DataSet();

                ds.ReadXml(MapPath("data.xml"));

                dt = ds.Tables["student"];

            }

        }

 

        protected void btnaddrecords_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            dr = dt.NewRow();

            dr["sid"] = TextBox1.Text;

            dr["sname"] = TextBox2.Text;

            dr["smarks"] = TextBox3.Text;

            dr["saddress"] = TextBox4.Text;

            dt.Rows.Add(dr);

            ds.WriteXml(Server.MapPath("data.xml"));

            Response.Write("Record Successfully Inserted");

            clear();

        }

        void clear()

        {

            TextBox1.Text = "";

            TextBox2.Text = "";

            TextBox3.Text = "";

            TextBox4.Text = "";

 

        }

 

        protected void btn_showdata_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            DataSet ds = new DataSet();

            ds.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("data.xml"));

            GridView1.DataSource = ds;

            GridView1.DataBind();

           

        }

    }

}

 

 

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