XSD.exe Funkiness with Pre-Build Event
So I'm currently working on something where my domain ontology is maintained in XSD. In the beginning, it was no big deal to periodically run xsd.exe from the command line when I changed my XSD file. However, as my data types became larger in number, I really wanted to avoid constantly having to manually run the command line tool - so I added a pre-build event task.
"C:\program files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\xsd.exe"
"$(ProjectDir)Schema.xsd"
/classes
/n:$(ProjectName)
/o:"$(ProjectDir)"
Seems reasonable enough. However, when I run it, I get some weird error from xsd.exe about illegal characters in the path. I also notice that xsd actually changed my output path from "Pub.Domain" to "Pub_Domain" - What?!? I wish I could say that I knew why it does this - a friend suggested that this may be Vista-related? At any rate, if anyone knows why this is happening, please let me know. In the meantime, this works just fine.
md "c:\hld_temp"
"C:\program files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\xsd.exe"
"$(ProjectDir)Schema.xsd"
/classes
/n:$(ProjectName)
/o:"c:\hld_temp"
xcopy "c:\hld_temp\Schema.cs" "$(ProjectDir)" /Y
rd "c:\hld_temp" /S /Q
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