Posted a little sample at http://pastebin.com/Ju0iMpjJ
It's C#, sorry. Don't have time to create a VB mockup right now. In any case, I'm a little rusty with the VB syntax for LInQ. On Mar 27, 1:34 am, MC <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm being a completely hopeless newbie here - can anyone help me. I > *have* been trying to google how to do this stuff, but it is mostly > either ASP.NET (and I don't even know what that is...) or really > complicated. I just want to start really really simple - I clearly > don't understand something basic! > > What I have got so far, is below, I have a form with a multiline > textbox docked in it. > > Public Class RSSMonitor > > Dim myFeed As XElement = XElement.Load("https://groups.google.com/ > group/dotnetdevelopment/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml") > > Private Sub RSSMonitor_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e > As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load > Dim ItemAuthors As String() > ItemAuthors = From rssitem In myFeed.<item> Select > rssitem.<author>.Value > TextBox1.Text = String.Join(vbCrLf, ItemAuthors) > End Sub > End Class > > This doesn't work - it complains that it can't cast to the string > array, but if I put the explicit cast in, then it says it can't do > that either. > > All I am trying to do here, is populate the textbox with a list of all > the authors. Obviously I'm hopeing to do much more afterwards, but > I'm falling flat on my face at the first hurdle. > > If anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great - > this is ever so disheartening! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DotNetDevelopment, VB.NET, C# .NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XML Web Services,.NET Remoting" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dotnetdevelopment?hl=en?hl=en or visit the group website at http://megasolutions.net
