public class Startup
    {
        public void Configuration(IAppBuilder appBuilder)
        {
            var config = new HttpConfiguration();           
          
            config.Routes.MapHttpBatchRoute(
                routeName: "Batch",
                routeTemplate: "api/$batch",
                batchHandler: new DefaultHttpBatchHandler(GlobalConfiguration.DefaultServer));

            config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

            config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
                name: "Default",
                routeTemplate: "{controller}/{action}/{name}",
                defaults: new { name = RouteParameter.Optional }
            );

            config.Formatters.Clear();
            config.Formatters.Add(new JsonMediaTypeFormatter());
            config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.Formatting = Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented;
            config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver();

            config.EnsureInitialized();          
            appBuilder.UseWebApi(config);
        }
    }

 var config = new HttpConfiguration();
 HttpServer server = new HttpServer(config);

using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Formatting;

public class Program
    {
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string baseAddress = "http://localhost:8080";
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var batchRequest = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, baseAddress + "/api/$batch")
            {
                Content = new MultipartContent("mixed")
                {                   
                    new HttpMessageContent(new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, baseAddress + "/api/Book/Add")
                    {
                        Content = new ObjectContent<string>("myBook", new JsonMediaTypeFormatter())
                    }),                   
                    new HttpMessageContent(new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, baseAddress + "/api/Book/GetAll"))
                }
            };

            var batchResponse = client.SendAsync(batchRequest).Result;

            MultipartStreamProvider streamProvider = batchResponse.Content.ReadAsMultipartAsync().Result;
            foreach (var content in streamProvider.Contents)
            {
                var response = content.ReadAsHttpResponseMessageAsync().Result;                
            }
        }
    }

 config.Routes.MapHttpBatchRoute(
                routeName: "WebApiBatch",
                routeTemplate: "api/$batch",
                batchHandler: new DefaultHttpBatchHandler(GlobalConfiguration.DefaultServer)
                {
                    ExecutionOrder = BatchExecutionOrder.NonSequential
                });

 <Employees>
     <Employee>
         <Name>Vahid</Name>
         <Phone>11111111</Phone>
         <Department>IT</Department>
  <Age>52</Age>
     </Employee>
     <Employee>
         <Name>Farid</Name>
         <Phone>124578963</Phone>
         <Department>Civil</Department>
        <Age>35</Age>
     </Employee>
     <Employee>
         <Name>Mehdi</Name>
         <Phone>1245788754</Phone>
         <Department>HR</Department>
        <Age>30</Age>
     </Employee>
 </Employees>

using System.Xml.Linq;

XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load("Employee.xml");

// loading XML from string
StringReader sr = new StringReader(stringXML);
XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(sr);

using System.Collections;

IEnumerable<XElement> empList = from e in xDoc.Root.Elements("Employee") select e;

foreach (XElement employee in empList)
{               
    foreach (XElement e in employee.Elements())
    {
         Console.WriteLine(e.Name + " = " + e.Value);
    }
}

IEnumerable<XElement> hrList = from e in xDoc.Root.Elements("Employee")
                                                  where e.Element("Department").Value == "HR"
                                                  select e;

IEnumerable<XElement> tList = from e in xDoc.Root.Elements("Employee")
                                                where int.Parse(e.Element("Age").Value) > 30
                                                select e;

IEnumerable<XElement> tList = from e in xDoc.Root.Elements("Employee")
                                               where int.Parse(e.Element("Age").Value) > 30
                                               orderby e.Element("Name").Value
                                               select e;

           var empList = from e in xDoc.Root.Elements("Employee")
                         orderby e.Element("Name").Value
                         select new
                         {
                             Name = e.Element("Name").Value,
                             Phone = e.Element("Phone").Value,
                             Department = e.Element("Department").Value,
                             Age = int.Parse(e.Element("Age").Value)
                         };

           foreach (var employee in empList)
           {
               Console.WriteLine("Name = " + employee.Name);
               Console.WriteLine("Dep = " + employee.Department);
               Console.WriteLine("Phone = " + employee.Phone);
               Console.WriteLine("Age = " + employee.Age);
           }

   public class Employee
   {
       public string Name { get; set; }
       public string Phone { get; set; }
       public string Department { get; set; }
       public int Age { get; set; }
  }

       public class Employee
       {
           public string Name { get; set; }
           public string Phone { get; set; }
           public string Department { get; set; }
           public int Age { get; set; }
       }

       List<Employee> Get()
       {
           XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load("Employee.xml");
           var items =
               from e in xDoc.Root.Elements("Employee")
               orderby e.Element("Name").Value
               select new Employee
               {
                   Name = e.Element("Name").Value,
                   Phone = e.Element("Phone").Value,
                   Department = e.Element("Department").Value,
                   Age = int.Parse(e.Element("Age").Value)
               };
           return items.ToList();
       }

public static class ConcurrentDictionaryExtensions
    {
        public static TValue GetOrAdd<TKey, TValue>(
            this ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, Lazy<TValue>> @this,
            TKey key, Func<TKey, TValue> valueFactory
        )
        {
            return @this.GetOrAdd(key,
                (k) => new Lazy<TValue>(() => valueFactory(k))
            ).Value;
        }

        public static TValue AddOrUpdate<TKey, TValue>(
            this ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, Lazy<TValue>> @this,
            TKey key, Func<TKey, TValue> addValueFactory,
            Func<TKey, TValue, TValue> updateValueFactory
        )
        {
            return @this.AddOrUpdate(key,
                (k) => new Lazy<TValue>(() => addValueFactory(k)),
                (k, currentValue) => new Lazy<TValue>(
                    () => updateValueFactory(k, currentValue.Value)
                )
            ).Value;
        }

        public static bool TryGetValue<TKey, TValue>(
            this ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, Lazy<TValue>> @this,
            TKey key, out TValue value
        )
        {
            value = default(TValue);

            var result = @this.TryGetValue(key, out Lazy<TValue> v);

            if (result) value = v.Value;

            return result;
        }

        // this overload may not make sense to use when you want to avoid
        //  the construction of the value when it isn't needed
        public static bool TryAdd<TKey, TValue>(
            this ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, Lazy<TValue>> @this,
            TKey key, TValue value
        )
        {
            return @this.TryAdd(key, new Lazy<TValue>(() => value));
        }

        public static bool TryAdd<TKey, TValue>(
            this ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, Lazy<TValue>> @this,
            TKey key, Func<TKey, TValue> valueFactory
        )
        {
            return @this.TryAdd(key,
                new Lazy<TValue>(() => valueFactory(key))
            );
        }

        public static bool TryRemove<TKey, TValue>(
            this ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, Lazy<TValue>> @this,
            TKey key, out TValue value
        )
        {
            value = default(TValue);

            if (@this.TryRemove(key, out Lazy<TValue> v))
            {
                value = v.Value;
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }

        public static bool TryUpdate<TKey, TValue>(
            this ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, Lazy<TValue>> @this,
            TKey key, Func<TKey, TValue, TValue> updateValueFactory
        )
        {
            if (!@this.TryGetValue(key, out Lazy<TValue> existingValue))
                return false;

            return @this.TryUpdate(key,
                new Lazy<TValue>(
                    () => updateValueFactory(key, existingValue.Value)
                ),
                existingValue
            );
        }
    }

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace LinqToRSS
{
 public static class LanguageExtender
 {
     public static string SafeValue(this XElement input)
     {
         return (input == null) ? string.Empty : input.Value;
     }

     public static DateTime SafeDateValue(this XElement input)
     {
         return (input == null) ? DateTime.MinValue : DateTime.Parse(input.Value);
     }
 }

 public class RssEntry
 {
     public string Title { set; get; }
     public string Description { set; get; }
     public string Link { set; get; }
     public DateTime PublicationDate { set; get; }
     public string Author { set; get; }
     public string BlogName { set; get; }
     public string BlogAddress { set; get; }
 }

 public class Rss
 {
     static XElement selectDate(XElement date1, XElement date2)
     {
         return date1 ?? date2;
     }

     public static List<RssEntry> GetEntries(string feedUrl)
     {
         //applying namespace in an XElement
         XName xn = XName.Get("{http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/}creator");//{namespace}root
         XName xn2 = XName.Get("{http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/}date");

         var feed = XDocument.Load(feedUrl);
         if (feed.Root == null) return null;

         var items = feed.Root.Element("channel").Elements("item");
         var feedQuery =
             from item in items
             select new RssEntry
                        {
                            Title = item.Element("title").SafeValue(),
                            Description = item.Element("description").SafeValue(),
                            Link = item.Element("link").SafeValue(),
                            PublicationDate =
                                selectDate(item.Element(xn2), item.Element("pubDate")).SafeDateValue(),
                            Author = item.Element(xn).SafeValue(),
                            BlogName = item.Parent.Element("title").SafeValue(),
                            BlogAddress = item.Parent.Element("link").SafeValue()
                        };

         return feedQuery.ToList();
     }
 }

 class Program
 {
     static void Main(string[] args)
     {
         List<RssEntry> entries = Rss.GetEntries("http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/rss.aspx");
         if (entries != null)
             foreach (var item in entries)
                 Console.WriteLine(item.Title);

         Console.WriteLine("Press a key...");
         Console.ReadKey();
     }
 }
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">
<channel>
 <title>Latest Microsoft Blogs</title>
 <link>http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/default.aspx</link>
 <description />
 <dc:language>en</dc:language>
 <generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP1 (Build: 20510.895)</generator>
 <item>
   <title>Comments on my recent benchmarks.</title>
   <link>http://misfitgeek.com/blog/aspnet/comments-on-my-recent-benchmarks/</link>
   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:33:59 GMT</pubDate>
   <guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:7166225</guid>
   <dc:creator>Misfit Geek: msft</dc:creator>
   <slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
   <wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=7166225</wfw:commentRss>
   <comments>http://misfitgeek.com/blog/aspnet/comments-on-my-recent-benchmarks/#comments</comments>
   <description>Overall I’ve been pretty impressed ...</description>
   <category domain="http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category>
 </item>
</channel>
</rss>

var items = feed.Root.Element("channel").Elements("item");

XName.Get("{mynamespace}root");
//or
XName.Get("root", "mynamespace");

Detected database created with a database initializer. Scaffolded migration '201205050805256_InitialCreate' 
corresponding to current database schema. To use an automatic migration instead, delete the Migrations
folder and re-run Enable-Migrations specifying the -EnableAutomaticMigrations parameter.

namespace EF_Sample02.Migrations
{
    using System;
    using System.Data.Entity;
    using System.Data.Entity.Migrations;
    using System.Linq;

    internal sealed class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration<EF_Sample02.Sample2Context>
    {
        public Configuration()
        {
            AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = false;
        }

        protected override void Seed(EF_Sample02.Sample2Context context)
        {
            //  This method will be called after migrating to the latest version.

            //  You can use the DbSet<T>.AddOrUpdate() helper extension method 
            //  to avoid creating duplicate seed data. E.g.
            //
            //    context.People.AddOrUpdate(
            //      p => p.FullName,
            //      new Person { FullName = "Andrew Peters" },
            //      new Person { FullName = "Brice Lambson" },
            //      new Person { FullName = "Rowan Miller" }
            //    );
            //
        }
    }
}

namespace EF_Sample02.Migrations
{
    using System.Data.Entity.Migrations;
    
    public partial class InitialCreate : DbMigration
    {
        public override void Up()
        {
            CreateTable(
                "Users",
                c => new
                    {
                        Id = c.Int(nullable: false, identity: true),
                        Name = c.String(),
                        LastName = c.String(),
                        Email = c.String(),
                        Description = c.String(),
                        Photo = c.Binary(),
                        RowVersion = c.Binary(nullable: false, fixedLength: true, timestamp: true, storeType: "rowversion"),
                        Interests_Interest1 = c.String(maxLength: 450),
                        Interests_Interest2 = c.String(maxLength: 450),
                        AddDate = c.DateTime(nullable: false),
                    })
                .PrimaryKey(t => t.Id);
            
            CreateTable(
                "Projects",
                c => new
                    {
                        Id = c.Int(nullable: false, identity: true),
                        Title = c.String(maxLength: 50),
                        Description = c.String(),
                        RowVesrion = c.Binary(nullable: false, fixedLength: true, timestamp: true, storeType: "rowversion"),
                        AddDate = c.DateTime(nullable: false),
                        AdminUser_Id = c.Int(),
                    })
                .PrimaryKey(t => t.Id)
                .ForeignKey("Users", t => t.AdminUser_Id)
                .Index(t => t.AdminUser_Id);
            
        }
        
        public override void Down()
        {
            DropIndex("Projects", new[] { "AdminUser_Id" });
            DropForeignKey("Projects", "AdminUser_Id", "Users");
            DropTable("Projects");
            DropTable("Users");
        }
    }
}

internal sealed class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration<EF_Sample02.Sample2Context>
{
        public Configuration()
        {
            AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true;
        }

//Database.SetInitializer(new Sample2DbInitializer());
Database.SetInitializer(new MigrateDatabaseToLatestVersion<Sample2Context, Migrations.Configuration>());

<entityFramework>
    <contexts>
      <context type="EF_Sample02.Sample2Context, EF_Sample02">
        <databaseInitializer
           type="System.Data.Entity.MigrateDatabaseToLatestVersion`2[[EF_Sample02.Sample2Context, EF_Sample02],
               [EF_Sample02.Migrations.Configuration, EF_Sample02]], EntityFramework"
        />
      </context>
    </contexts>
  </entityFramework>

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Projects](
---...
 [SomeProp] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
---...

Automatic migration was not applied because it would result in data loss.

internal sealed class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration<EF_Sample02.Sample2Context>
{
        public Configuration()
        {
            this.AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true;
            this.AutomaticMigrationDataLossAllowed = true;
        }

add-migration Initial -IgnoreChanges

update-database

Update-Database -Verbose

update-database -Script

SELECT * INTO [TempMigrationHistory]
FROM [__MigrationHistory]
DROP TABLE [__MigrationHistory]
EXEC sp_rename [TempMigrationHistory], [__MigrationHistory]

using System;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Data.Entity.Migrations;
using System.Data.Entity.Migrations.Infrastructure;
using System.IO;

namespace EF_Sample02
{
    public class Configuration<T> : DbMigrationsConfiguration<T> where T : DbContext
    {
        public Configuration()
        {
            AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true;
            AutomaticMigrationDataLossAllowed = true;
        }
    }

    public class SimpleDbMigrations
    {
        public static void UpdateDatabaseSchema<T>(string SQLScriptPath = "script.sql") where T : DbContext
        {
            var configuration = new Configuration<T>();
            var dbMigrator = new DbMigrator(configuration);
            saveToFile(SQLScriptPath, dbMigrator);
            dbMigrator.Update();
        }

        private static void saveToFile(string SQLScriptPath, DbMigrator dbMigrator)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(SQLScriptPath)) return;

            var scriptor = new MigratorScriptingDecorator(dbMigrator);
            var script = scriptor.ScriptUpdate(sourceMigration: null, targetMigration: null);
            File.WriteAllText(SQLScriptPath, script);
            Console.WriteLine(script);
        }
    }
}

SimpleDbMigrations.UpdateDatabaseSchema<Sample2Context>();