VIsual Studio XSD Editor

MS removed the feature as indicated in the thread below:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sk/xmlandnetfx/thread/a614f0ca-6041-4e82-a0bd-93fbf7e31148

Farhad Jalali

I have worked with VS2005 XSD designer. it contains a visual editor which I did not see it in neither VS2008 and VS2010. (In VS2010 there is just an XSD visual viewer not editor.

What could I do in VS2010?

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Hubery Yuan
(MSFT)

Farhad,
 

XSD Editer was removed since VS2008, and here explains why http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/csharpide/thread/87d25c88-a11e-4cbc-890e-a347cc58bdc8

Quoted from that post:

"This has been discussed many times before. VS fully supports editing XSD files just like it does XML. There is Intellisense support and everything. What it does not support anymore is a graphical editor. The reason why a graphical editor is not a great option is because of the memory required to support it. Graphical editors generally rely on the XMLDOM. The XMLDOM is a legacy component with hideous overhead. Anything above a 4MB XML file and things get really bad. Go to 10MB and you can easily use several hundred MB just for the one file.

Having said that do note that the XML Schema Explorer is available for viewing a hierarchial interpretation of the schema. It provides a few features but it is not a full-blown schema editor. If you need to do graphical schema editing then you'll need to use an external tool."


    Proposed As Answer by Hubery YuanMicrosoft Employee Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:10 AM