Paste XML as Element

XML in Vb 9.0 has become a first class citizen. You can copy XML content and assign it to Xelment variable and compiler will not complain at all. You can even get intellisence on the XML in Vb if you import XML namespace. C# does not provide all these goodies. But recently when I had to do XML parsing from the data returned by Google mini, I came across this smart paste option that I had not discovered before. Basically you can copy some XML content, go to view menu and select paste XML as Element and it will generate all the XML element code needed to create that markup. This gives you a good start in building up the XML data that you desire. Below is a screen shot that outlines the code generated when I selected Paste XML as Elements in Visual Studio.

In the above code, I first copied the XML content and then went to the edit menu and selected paste XML as XElement and sure enough Visual Studio generated the code that can generate the same XML content that I copied.