I'm doing a bunch of database / XML stuff @ work, so I decided to use to VS08beta 2 so I can use LINQ. For reasons I don't want to get into, I needed a wayto convert arbitrary database rows, read using a SqlDataReader, into XML. LINQ toSQL was out, since the code has to work against arbitrary tables (i.e. I have no compiletime schema knowledge). But XLinq LINQ to XML helped me out a ton.Check out this example: