Comments on: Convert Garmin 705 Navigator TCX Format using LINQ to XML and Data Objects – Article 1

By: justin

justin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:47:18 +0000

You’ve probably long since forgotten about this but you are the “I’m Feeling Lucky” for the Google query “C# tcx file parser” so I figured I’d post a quick bug. Your initial query looks for the Activities node (root.Descendants(ns1 + “Activities”)) when it should actually be iterating the Activity nodes. That way if the user has the GPS track a multi-sport activity, like a triathlon, the laps get broken out into multiple Activity objects. Of course you would need to have the method return the generic List and not the SingleOrDefault.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:19:52 +0000

Thank you for a great program, I am a beginner in Linq, and I see how to get the information in Laps, but how do you get at the information in Tracks and Positionx? How does one list lead to the next?

Mark

By: dutchnomad

dutchnomad — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:21:52 +0000

Is the zip file still somewhere available?

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:56:17 +0000

Very interesting article,

I’m in search of something a bit more unique. Every search I’ve done point to the same thing.

I’m trying to find devices, similarly to what the API is doing, but from code behind. Seeing that plug in is an ActiveX object I assume that wrapping the assembly in a managed class would give me the required functionality to do this. However, I cannot seem to either “unlock” the plugin in order to start the FindDevices() methods.

Have you tried this by any chance? Or know of any link I can point to, to help me out?

Regards,

Eric

By: Stuart Lodge

Stuart Lodge — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:04:25 +0000

Thanks for the post – wish I’d stumbled across it 2 months ago. I went the “xsd /classes” route to parsing tcx files instead – but this looks cleaner.

I wonder which works faster…

By: Randika

Randika — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:06:24 +0000

Thank you for been generous

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:40:44 +0000

HI,

very good idea and i think the code is also very smart, but sorry i dont speak c#.net.

I for myself tried to do a tcx lap combiner and the first tests where not that bad, but the code was very unhandy.

Now i want to take a look at your solution with LINQ. I tried to convert to vb.net (witch i speak) but stuck in garmin.cs line 41…

COULD you help or even better do you see a way how to combine c#.net and a vb.net development, because i think you intension to do a tcx tool is also in my interests. I´ve got enough ideas what else we can do with the Edge files.

That the output i´v got form converting…..
Public Class GarminUtils
Public Shared Function ConvertTCS(fileName As String) As Activity
Dim root As XElement = XElement.Load(fileName)
Dim ns1 As XNamespace = “http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabase/v2″

Dim activities As IEnumerable(Of Activity) = From activityElement In root.Descendants(Convert.ToString(ns1) & “Activities”) _
Select New Activity()

Return activities.SingleOrDefault()
End Function
End Class