Question

Is there an easy way to write an XElement object to a browser so that it’s formatted nicely, like this: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/demos/UserInfoWriter.2.aspx? I don’t want to have to create any sort of strongly typed class, or explicitly write every node.

Example:

var xElement = new XElement("test", new XElement("node", "1"));

can I do something with xElement at this point?

Answer 1

It depends on what you’re trying to do, but if you change content type to text/xml the browser will display formatted XML. However, this won’t work if you have other content you’re trying to display on the page.