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....