Channel 9 Interview: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Published 15 August 08 12:18 PM

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE. In this interview Yang shows us the new XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. This new window is invoked when you right-click on an XML literal element or namespace and select "Show in XML Schema Explorer" in Visual Basic programs. It's a nice way to visually display the structure of your schema sets which makes you even more productive when working with XML in Visual Basic.


XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Enjoy!

by Beth Massi
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# radiolistener said on August 15, 2008 10:00 PM:

Hi Beth,

It looks like a pretty good tool.  The example set up had many more schemas than I have ever used at once.  It might have been a better presentation if the example was a little more simplified.

I have yet to install SP1, does this schema explorer replace the schema tool?

Thanks,

John.

# Beth Massi said on August 19, 2008 11:05 PM:

Hi John,

No it doesn't replace the XML to Schema tool, it serves a different purpose -- it just helps navigate the schemas you already have in the project. The XML To Schema actually is a wizard that infers the schema from XML data and adds it to your project. This tool is now built into Visual Studio SP1 now so there's no need to download it.

Regarding the sample, I think Yang wanted to show off all the features of the window and how it handles complex schemas. A simple example wouldn't have shown all the powerful features. I'll make note to blog about it with a simple example in the future.

HTH,

-B

# Microsoft XML Team's WebLog said on November 6, 2008 4:16 PM:

Beth Massi and Yang Xiao did a great Channel 9 session that centered on XML Literals and the XML Schema

# Wade said on November 11, 2008 5:07 AM:

Now, the explorer is nice, but what tool is available to allow us to manipulate the results at design time.  If you make a strongly-typed dataset, you can bind it at design time to a datagridview and manipulate the look.  Is there someway to do this with XML data that isn't cumbersome?  Right now I use the XML to Schema tool and some work arounds to make the XML show up in the datasources tab, which them allows me to bind it to the datagridview.  Thanks.

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About Beth Massi

Beth is an Online Content and Community Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team responsible for producing content for business application developers and driving community features onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com/). She also produces content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/), and a variety of other developer sites. As a Visual Basic community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and modifying cars.
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