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| Title | Load a TreeView control from an XML file in VB .NET |
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| Description | This example shows how to load a TreeView control from an XML file in Visual Basic .NET. |
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| Keywords | TreeView, XML |
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| Categories | Controls, Files and Directories, VB.NET |
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Subroutine LoadTreeViewFromXmlFile loads the XML document, clears the TreeView control's nodes, and calls subroutine AddTreeViewChildNodes, passing it the TreeView's Nodes collection and the XML document's root node.
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' Load a TreeView control from an XML file.
Private Sub LoadTreeViewFromXmlFile(ByVal file_name As _
String, ByVal trv As TreeView)
' Load the XML document.
Dim xml_doc As New XmlDocument
xml_doc.Load(file_name)
' Add the root node's children to the TreeView.
trv.Nodes.Clear()
AddTreeViewChildNodes(trv.Nodes, _
xml_doc.DocumentElement)
End Sub
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Subroutine AddTreeViewChildNodes takes as parameters a TreeNodeCollection that should contain the child nodes defined by an XML node. For each of the XML node's children, the subroutine adds a new TreeView node to the node collection. It then calls itself recursively to add children to the new child node.
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' Add the children of this XML node
' to this child nodes collection.
Private Sub AddTreeViewChildNodes(ByVal parent_nodes As _
TreeNodeCollection, ByVal xml_node As XmlNode)
For Each child_node As XmlNode In xml_node.ChildNodes
' Make the new TreeView node.
Dim new_node As TreeNode = _
parent_nodes.Add(child_node.Name)
' Recursively make this node's descendants.
AddTreeViewChildNodes(new_node.Nodes, child_node)
' If this is a leaf node, make sure it's visible.
If new_node.Nodes.Count = 0 Then _
new_node.EnsureVisible()
Next child_node
End Sub
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For more information about using XML in Visual Basic .NET, see my book Visual Basic .NET and XML.
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