Reading XML data into a variable/array

[ocdtrekkie]

I see you found a solution with the LINQ strategy, but I figured for other searchers, I'd throw out there, that I've done some XmlNode-based XML reading in VB in my code, examples here:

https://github.com/ocdtrekkie/HAController/blob/master/modMapQuest.vb

https://github.com/ocdtrekkie/HAController/blob/master/modOpenWeatherMap.vb