DescendantsAndSelf Method (IEnumerable(XElement))
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Extensions.DescendantsAndSelf Method (IEnumerable(Of XElement))

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Returns a collection of elements that contains every element in the source collection, and the descendent elements of every element in the source collection.

Namespace:  System.Xml.Linq
Assembly:  System.Xml.Linq (in System.Xml.Linq.dll)

'Declaration
<ExtensionAttribute> _
Public Shared Function DescendantsAndSelf ( _
	source As IEnumerable(Of XElement) _
) As IEnumerable(Of XElement)

Parameters

source
Type: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable(Of XElement)
An IEnumerable(Of T) of XElement that contains the source collection.

Return Value

Type: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable(Of XElement)
An IEnumerable(Of T) of XElement that contains every element in the source collection, and the descendent elements of every element in the source collection.

Usage Note

In Visual Basic and C#, you can call this method as an instance method on any object of type IEnumerable(Of XElement). When you use instance method syntax to call this method, omit the first parameter.

ExceptionCondition
ArgumentNullException

source is Nothing.

Although Visual Basic has an integrated XML axis for descendant elements, there is no integrated axis that has the semantics of this method, so Visual Basic users must use this axis method explicitly.

This method uses deferred execution.

Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, 7.0

Windows Phone

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