Matthew Manela, an engineer on our Online Tools team, has created and released a free, community-based tool called the Snippet Designer . His tool is a Visual Studio add-in that allows you to create and edit snippets from inside the IDE. Snippets are...

In a previous post , you saw how to work with line numbers when using LINQ to XML to read a file. This post continues in the same vein, but this time the focus is on how to: Read in an XML file with an arbitrary format, and then write it back out to disk...

There are times when it is useful to know the line number of a node in an XML file. This information can be a helpful to users, particularly if you want to report an error. It can also be convenient to search for a node by line number, but that can, of...