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Extensions.DescendantsAndSelf Method

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Returns a collection of every element in the source collection, and all descendant elements for every element in the source collection.

This member is overloaded. For complete information about this member, including syntax, usage, and examples, click a name in the overload list.

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  Name Description
Public methodStatic memberSupported by Silverlight for Windows PhoneSupported by Xbox 360 DescendantsAndSelf(IEnumerable<XElement>) Returns a collection of elements that contains every element in the source collection, and the descendent elements of every element in the source collection.
Public methodStatic memberSupported by Silverlight for Windows PhoneSupported by Xbox 360 DescendantsAndSelf(IEnumerable<XElement>, XName) Returns a filtered collection of elements that contains every element in the source collection, and the descendents of every element in the source collection. Only elements that have a matching XName are included in the collection.

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Remarks

Although Visual Basic has an integrated XML axis for descendant elements, there is no integrated axis that has the semantics of this method.

This method uses deferred execution.