XmlReader.ReadContentAs reads the content as an object of the type specified.
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml
Public Class Sample
Public Shared Sub Main()
Using reader As XmlReader = XmlReader.Create("data.xml")
reader.ReadToDescendant("item")
reader.MoveToAttribute("colors")
Dim colors As String() = CType(reader.ReadContentAs(GetType(String()), Nothing), String())
Dim color As String
For Each color In colors
Console.WriteLine("Colors: {0}", color)
Next color
End Using
End Sub
End Class