Binding xelement to datagrid

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I'm trying XElement binding for the very first time so apologies if this is very silly. I have an XML which I need to bind to DataGrid.

Music.xml:

XML

<Music>
    <Album Title="Chris Sells Live" Artist="Chris Sells" ReleaseDate="2/5/2008" /> 
    <Album Title="The Road to Redmond" Artist="Luka Abrus" ReleaseDate="4/3/2008"/> 
    <Album Title="The Best of Jim Hance" Artist="Jim Hance" ReleaseDate="6/2/2008"/> 
</Music>

CodeBehind :

C#

InitializeComponent();
XElement MyMusic = XElement.Load("Music.xml"); 
this.XElementContainer.DataContext = MyMusic.Elements("Album");

Above code gets the XElement from Music.Xml file

XAML :

HTML

<DataGrid x:Name="XElementContainer" ItemsSource="{Binding}"/>

OutputWindow.jpg - Google Drive

The above link contains the output of the current execution where it is binding the properties of XElement.I need to bind the child element of specified node i.e Album which has child nodes of Title, Artist and Release Date.
As you see the image, why is it Binding Properties of XElement? How do i get rid of this?
I'm expecting the output in datagrid where I dont want to create any static DataGridTextColumn. Is it possible to just bind the XElement data and get a result like this:

Title |Artist |ReleaseDate
Chris Sells Live Chris Sells 2/5/2008
the Road to Redmond Luka Abrus 4/3/2008
the Best of Jim Hance Jim Hance 6/2/2008

What I have tried:

I'm very new to XElement binding. so what ever posted above is what I have tried.

Posted 6-Jun-16 22:59pm

partha143

Updated 7-Jun-16 17:10pm

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George Jonsson 7-Jun-16 6:05am

Does it have to be XElement or could you use DataTable?

partha143 7-Jun-16 6:13am

Priority is to use XElement. But it would be grateful if you could give me some idea on both the approach.

George Jonsson 7-Jun-16 7:01am

Sorry, no time tonight.
A DataTable is not that difficult to use.
DataTable dt = new DataTable():
dt.ReadXml(path);

Set the data source in the code behind
dataGrid.ItemSource = dt.DefaultView;

partha143 8-Jun-16 2:53am

Thanks George. Worked fine :)

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PraveenDora · Answer 1 · 2016-06-07T17:10:00

Solution 1

Hi Partha

use DataSet you need following code in ur code behind

C#

InitializeComponent();
System.Data.DataSet ds = new System.Data.DataSet();
ds.ReadXml("Music.xml"); 
this.XElementContainer.DataContext = ds.Tables[0];

Posted 7-Jun-16 17:10pm

PraveenDora