Question

I have a console application which will be triggered by a batch file. The application must have to load the configuration from an XML file for running… Suppose if the batch file sends a parameter “Env1” to the application.. The application should load the “Env1” config only to a c# class through serialization. The XML file format is shown below..

<EnvironmentCollection>
    <Environment>
        <Name>Env1</Name>
        <Url>....</Url>
    </Environment>
    <Environment>
        <Name>Env2</Name>
        <Url>....</Url>
    </Environment>
 </EnvironmentCollection>

Any help will be appreciated greatly
Thanks

Answer 1

XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(file);
var dict = xDoc.Descendants("Environment")
                .ToDictionary(x => x.Element("Name").Value, 
                              x => x.Element("Url").Value);

and usage would be

var url = dict["Env1"];