[RESOLVED] XSD file and VB.Net

[blakemckenna]

Is it possible to create an XSD file within VB.Net? If so, how do I do this? Today is my first day delving into the world of XML/XSD.

Thanks,

[mendhak]

Do you want to do this programmatically or do you want to do this using Visual Studio, which has a tool to generate the XSD for you?

[blakemckenna]

I'd like to know how to do both?

[mendhak]

Visual Studio has, when you view an XML file, a button in the XML editor called "Create Schema". This should actually be called "Infer Schema" because the tool then looks at the XML and creates a tightly constrained schema based upon the XML and values present in it.

To do this programmatically, you'd invoke the xsd.exe utility using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(). This is the XML Schema Definition tool and you will need to write the XML to disk and pass the XML to the tool so that it can create the XSD for you. Again, same mechanism. Tightly constrained, limited.

[blakemckenna]

mendhak,

How do I access within VS? I opened an "XML" file in VS but did not see any button related to XML.

[mendhak]

Right click on the toolbars at the top and look for "XML Editor"

[blakemckenna]

Thanks, I found it!