I am dealing with a web-service that returns string-objects in xml-format. A bit simplified they look like this: "<error><code>514</code><description>User not found</description></error>". Are there any classes / methods in .net i can use that will translate this xml-code for me so i can just get the error-code or description without having to search through the string myself? I find a lot of Xml-reader stuff in the msdn, but they seem to be dealing with files and streams, not strings.