http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/12/14/channel-9-interview-xml-literals-performance-and-namespaces-explained-beth-massi.aspxI just posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni , a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, as he dives into LINQ to XML and XML Literals in Visual Basic 9 and explains namespace bubbling and the performance gains you may see using XML Literals.en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/12/14/channel-9-interview-xml-literals-performance-and-namespaces-explained-beth-massi.aspx#6784152Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:56:04 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6784152Bradley<p>Why does everyything new on MSDN have to be a video? &nbsp;Bring back the the text. &nbsp;I want to learn about this stuff but don't have the time to sit through a 15-30 minute video when i could spend 5 minutes reading the same information.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/12/14/channel-9-interview-xml-literals-performance-and-namespaces-explained-beth-massi.aspx#6790587Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:46:15 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6790587Greg<p>Can you shed some light on whether or not the .NET XML methods load and parse the entire file at the same time? &nbsp;We need a record at a time processing of xml files since we get them in the 50+ megabyte range on a daily basis. For business reasons, each file comes from a single customer &nbsp;and each file contains several thousand data records to be treated as a single large transaction from that customer.</p>