What is the best way to parse large XML (size of 1GB) in C#?

Question

I have a 1GB XML file and want to parse it. If I use XML Textreader or XMLDocument, the result is very slow and some times it hangs...

Answer 1

I would just like to back up everyone who promotes XmlReader with a performance comparison that I found:

http://www.nearinfinity.com/blogs/joe_ferner/performance_linq_to_sql_vs.html