Are you sure you want to use XML as your database? As I understand it, XML is good for transferring data and storing relatively small amounts of data, but not so good for storing larger amounts or relational data.

>I need to use XML as my database for an application I'm building in VB.Net but I can't seem to get the basics down as to how to read to and write to the file as though it were a database. My understanding is you can use XML in a similar manner you would use Access but I can't find much help on the web or with books. Can anyone guide me a bit and maybe give me some sample code?
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>thanks so much!