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XML to Schema Inference Wizard for Visual Studio 2008

Brief Description
This XML to Schema tool is a free project item template that automates the creation of XML schemas from a set of XML documents/resources.

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File Name:XmlToSchema.msi
Version:1.0
Date Published:9/5/2007
Language:English
Download Size:521 KB
Estimated Download Time: 2 min 56K

Overview

This XML to Schema tool is a free project item template that automates the creation of XML schemas from a set of XML documents/resources. If you are working with LINQ To XML in Visual Basic 9, this utility may significantly improve your editing experience by adding XML schemas (.xsd) to your project that provide IntelliSense on XML properties from your documents. The tool can also be used as a way to create an XML schema from a set of existing XML documents.

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System Requirements

  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP
Supported in Visual Studio 2008 (All editions) for Visual Basic projects

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Instructions

After installing the download, open your project/solution in Visual Studio IDE and bring up the “Add New Item” dialog for the project where you’d like to use a new schema. Choose “Xml to Schema” item from “Data” category, then follow instructions on the “Infer XML Schema from XML documents” dialog that opens. When finishing the wizard the applicable Xml schemas will be added to your project and you will observe the Xml intellisense when typing Xml Imports statements and while using Xml properties

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Additional Information

Support: This tool is an alpha release and thus does not have any official support from Microsoft, however we would love to hear your feedback about usability and any issues you may encounter in using this tool so we can incorporate this feedback in a possible future released version of this tool. Please visit the Visual Basic IDE forum to ask questions and provide feedback: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=65&SiteID=1

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