Importing existing XSD schema file into Visual Studio 2005

[donnie.hale]

Question: What's the "canonical" way to import an existing XSD schema
file
into VS2005 in such a way that I can use standard C# object / property
techniques to create content of that schema type and ultimately
generate an
XML file based on that schema?

Background: I've been given an XSD file by a 3rd party. I need to
generate
XML files based on that schema. Note that is ***not*** for web service
interaction - just creation of on-disk XML files. I can easily enough
do an
"Add Existing Item..." into VS, and I can open the schema up in the
designer.
But that doesn't seem sufficient to get me any classes that I can
create and
populate in order to build up the content which would be used to write
the
XML file.

I'm familiar with the XSD.EXE utility. Is that my only recourse? I'm
guessing there's something real simple I'm missing, but I can't figure
out
what it is for the life of me...

Thanks much,

Donnie

[John Saunders]

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Question: What's the "canonical" way to import an existing XSD schema
file
into VS2005 in such a way that I can use standard C# object / property
techniques to create content of that schema type and ultimately
generate an
XML file based on that schema?

Background: I've been given an XSD file by a 3rd party. I need to
generate
XML files based on that schema. Note that is ***not*** for web service
interaction - just creation of on-disk XML files. I can easily enough
do an
"Add Existing Item..." into VS, and I can open the schema up in the
designer.
But that doesn't seem sufficient to get me any classes that I can
create and
populate in order to build up the content which would be used to write
the
XML file.

I'm familiar with the XSD.EXE utility. Is that my only recourse? I'm
guessing there's something real simple I'm missing, but I can't figure
out
what it is for the life of me...

Thanks much,

Donnie

Nope. XSD.EXE is it, as far as I know. When your XSD is describing a
DataSet, there are tools in VS.NET to generate the typed DataSet classes
from the XSD automatically, but I don't believe that the equivalent exists
for non-DataSet XSD files.

John