In this post I will outline the major schema-related changes in MSXML 6.0 and what you might need to do if you rely on the old behavior. Questions? Comments? Let me know. XDR Support MSXML6 has removed support for XDR schemas. XML schema (XSD) 1...

MSDN just published my article on inline schemas . Check it out.

The XML Editor provides support for Inline Schemas. Inline schemas are XML schema definitions included inside XML instance documents. They can be used to validate that the rest of the XML matches the schema constraints in the same way that external schema...

If you are a VB developer and tried to use the new XML Editor, you might have noticed that the File menu does not have File | New option (this is only true if you selected VB Development settings). So, how do you go about creating new XML files? Lisa...

One of the goals we had for MSXML6 and system.xml in .NET 2.0 was to bring down the number of differences in schema processing between the two engines. I think we did a pretty good job here, but there are still a few differences left. The table below...

Did you know that there are multiple ways of associating a schema with an XML document in the XML Editor? The following list describes all of them in the order in which the XML Editor will look for them Schemas Property on your XML document ...

Below are a few tips and tricks on using schema cache and schema catalogs with the new XML Editor in VS 2005. Schema Cache The XML Editor comes with a set of schemas that describe some of the W3C standard and some of the VS specific XML namespaces...

I’ve seen a number of newsgroup posts asking how to find a particular element or how to get a list of all elements from either XmlSchema or XmlSchemaSet objects. Since we don’t provide this functionality in the framework, you need to manually traverse...

Paul Downey and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen just published a report on "XML Schema 1.0 User Experiences" that W3C organized last month. Also, W3C has started a new XML Schema wiki site .

VS2005 introduced a new and very powerful feature called Code Snippets. A code snippet is an XML file (with a .snippet extension) that contains a chunk of code in which you can configure different parameters, reference assemblies, and use references and import statements. Think of them as templates that you can configure to meet your needs. The XML Editor supports this feature and also adds dynamically generated code snippets based on your XML Schemas....