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I'm trying to bind a Silverlight DataGrid to the results of a WCF service call. I was not seeing the data displayed in the grid, so when I ran through the debugger, I notice that XDocument.Descendants() was not returning any elements even when I was passing in a valid element name. Here is the XML that is passed back from the service: <ArrayOfEmployee xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Employees.Entities" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Employee> <BirthDate>1953-09-02T00:00:00</BirthDate> <EmployeeNumber>10001</EmployeeNumber> <FirstName>Georgi</FirstName> <Gender>M</Gender> <HireDate>1986-06-26T00:00:00</HireDate> <LastName>Facello</LastName> </Employee> <Employee> <BirthDate>1964-06-02T00:00:00</BirthDate> <EmployeeNumber>10002</EmployeeNumber> <FirstName>Bezalel</FirstName> <Gender>F</Gender> <HireDate>1985-11-21T00:00:00</HireDate> <LastName>Simmel</LastName> </Employee> </ArrayOfEmployee> And here is the method I use to load the results into a collection of anonymous objects, using Linq to XMl, and then bind the collection to the grid. void client_DownloadStringCompleted(object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs args) { if (args.Error != null) return; var xml = XDocument.Parse(args.Result); var employees = from e in xml.Descendants("Employee") select new { EmployeeNumber = e.Element("EmployeeNumber").Value, FirstName = e.Element("FirstName").Value, LastName = e.Element("LastName").Value, Birthday = e.Element("BirthDate").Value }; DataGrid.SelectedIndex = -1; DataGri

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