Read XML element freezes VB net

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I have this xml file

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xs:element name="employee">
<xs:complexType>
   <xs:element name="start" type="xs:date"/> 
     <start>2002-09-24</start>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

and this code in VB Net CE 2015

VB

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
       Dim root As XElement = XDocument.Load("C:\Users\supervisor\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\mdi\mdi\tameio3.xml").Root
       Dim employee1 = date.Parse(root.<employee>.<start>.Value).ToString
       TextBox1.Text = employee1
   End Sub

when I push the button the app just freezes any help or ideas on how to read the xml element in a textbox?

What I have tried:

the above solution tried this too

VB

Dim employee1 = root.<employee>.<start>.Value.ToString

but the same

Posted 18-Jan-19 23:23pm

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Updated 20-Jan-19 9:47am

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Richard Deeming 22-Jan-19 9:14am

Is that your entire XML file? You're missing the namespace declaration for the xs: prefix.

You're also looking for elements that don't exist. There is no <employee> element; instead, there is an <xs:element> with an attribute called name that contains the value "employee".

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2019-01-20T09:47:00

There's few ways to read xml. Please, follow the instruction from past answer: Read xml node from give xml file[^]

I prefer to use XDocument + Linq:

VB.NET

Dim xdoc As XDocument = XDocument.Load("C:\Users\supervisor\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\mdi\mdi\tameio3.xml")
Dim employees = xdoc.Descendants("employee").ToList()
For Each ele As XElement In employees
    Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1}", ele.Name, ele.Value)
Next

Good luck!