How to: Load an XML File from an Arbitrary URI Location with LINQ to XML

In Solution Explorer, add assembly references to System.Xml.Linq.dll and System.Net.dll.

Modify your page.xaml file so that it includes the following TextBlock element:

<TextBlock x:Name ="OutputTextBlock" Canvas.Top ="10" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>

In the page.xaml source file for your application, add the following using statements (Imports in Visual Basic):

using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Net;

Create the WebClient object, add the handler, and initiate the request. To request a resource as a stream, you must call an OpenReadAsync method overload.

WebClient wc = new WebClient();
wc.OpenReadCompleted += wc_OpenReadCompleted;
wc.OpenReadAsync(new Uri(uriString));

Implement the wc_OpenReadCompleted callback function. This function does the following:

1. Checks the Error property for errors.

2. If there are no errors, gets the data stream and passes it to the XDocument's Load method overload.

private void wc_OpenReadCompleted(object sender, OpenReadCompletedEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Error != null)
    {
        OutputTextBlock.Text = e.Error.Message;
        return;
    }
    using (Stream s = e.Result)
    {
        XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(s);
        OutputTextBlock.Text = doc.ToString(SaveOptions.OmitDuplicateNamespaces);
    }
}