Generate class from schema (VS.NET 2005)

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Phil Lee - 04 Nov 2005 19:52 GMT

I'm sure this is possible but I just can't see how to do it. I want to add
schemas to my solution and have C# classes automatically generated from
them. I can see how to generate typed DataSet's with the MSDataSetGenerator
custom tool. Is there something similar for simple schemas?

Regards
Phil Lee

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Kevin Yu [MSFT] - 05 Nov 2005 08:02 GMT

Hi Phil,

We have reviewed this issue and are currently researching on it. We will
update you ASAP. Thanks for your patience!

Kevin Yu

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Steven Cheng[MSFT] - 06 Nov 2005 07:54 GMT

Hi Phil,

Welcome to webservice newsgroup.
Regarding on the Auto code generating from XSD file in VS.NET 2005, there
hasn't build-in Custom Tool for this. Currently the available ones is
still the DataSet generator and WSDL proxy generator. For custom class
generating from xml schema, we can still use the Xsd.exe provided by
VS.NET 2.0 sdk like we do in vs.net 2003/.net 1.x.... You can run the
xsd.exe from VS.NET 2005 command prompt window.... In addition, in VS.NET
2003, there has a external custom tool addin(XsdClassesGen ) writen by
Chris Cells:

http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/#xsdClassesGen

For .net 2.0/VS.NET 2005 since it has just been released, I think it may
take some further time to have such a new verion available.

Thanks for your understanding.

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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I'm sure this is possible but I just can't see how to do it. I want to add
schemas to my solution and have C# classes automatically generated from
them. I can see how to generate typed DataSet's with the
MSDataSetGenerator
custom tool. Is there something similar for simple schemas?

Regards
Phil Lee

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Steven Cheng[MSFT] - 09 Nov 2005 12:15 GMT

Hi Phil,

How are you doing on this thread, does the info provided in my last reply
helps a little?
If there're anything else we can help, please feel free to post here.
Thanks,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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Hi Phil,

Welcome to webservice newsgroup.
Regarding on the Auto code generating from XSD file in VS.NET 2005, there
hasn't build-in Custom Tool for this. Currently the available ones is
still the DataSet generator and WSDL proxy generator. For custom class
generating from xml schema, we can still use the Xsd.exe provided by
VS.NET 2.0 sdk like we do in vs.net 2003/.net 1.x.... You can run the
xsd.exe from VS.NET 2005 command prompt window.... In addition, in VS.NET
2003, there has a external custom tool addin(XsdClassesGen ) writen by
Chris Cells:

http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/#xsdClassesGen

For .net 2.0/VS.NET 2005 since it has just been released, I think it may
take some further time to have such a new verion available.

Thanks for your understanding.

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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Phil Lee - 14 Nov 2005 09:17 GMT

Steven,

thanks for the help. I have decided to just manually generate the classes
using xsd.exe, or perhaps put in a build event as suggested by Cordell
Lawrence.

Regards
Phil Lee

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Steven Cheng[MSFT] - 14 Nov 2005 11:01 GMT

Thanks for your followup, Lawrence.

And please feel free to post here when you need any further help.

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Steven,

thanks for the help. I have decided to just manually generate the classes
using xsd.exe, or perhaps put in a build event as suggested by Cordell
Lawrence.

Regards
Phil Lee

> Hi Phil,
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> Regards
> Phil Lee

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Mork - 15 Nov 2005 21:20 GMT

Phil,

This might be of interest to you. Aaron Skonnard wrote a
System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvider implementation that monitors
changes to your *.xsd files and generates the code for them. This
obviously is only for Web projects. Go here
http://pluralsight.com/blogs/aaron/archive/2005/09/13/14794.aspx and
follow the link to the demos. Look in that *.zip file for
XsdBuildProvider to get started.

HTH.

Cheers,
Dan Mork

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Mork - 21 Nov 2005 16:18 GMT

Phil,

This is more what you're looking for:
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/#xsdClassesGen

Cheers,
Dan Mork

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Cordell Lawrence - 07 Nov 2005 20:11 GMT

Phil, I've ran into this problem just last week. One way to deal with it is
to use your Build Events under int the configuration for you VS (both 2003
and 2005) project. On your pre-build event command line, you can execute the
XSD.exe on any file you choose before you build. This is more difficult to
maintain than having a custom-tool, but it'll get the job done.

Hope this helps,
Cordell Lawrence
Teleios Systems Ltd.

> I'm sure this is possible but I just can't see how to do it. I want to
> add schemas to my solution and have C# classes automatically generated
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> Regards
> Phil Lee

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