Load the Employees.xml and store the contents into an XDocument object
Imports System Imports System.Xml.Linq Public Class MainClass Public Shared Sub Main() Dim xmlDoc As XDocument = XDocument.Load("Employees.xml")
Console.WriteLine("The document declaration is '{0}'", xmlDoc.Declaration.ToString)
Console.WriteLine("The root element is '{0}'", xmlDoc.Root.Name.LocalName) End Sub