MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-320): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C#™ .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework

Generating and Using XSD Schemas

Access and Manipulate XML Data: Generate and use an XSD schema.

In Chapter 1, “Creating and Manipulating DataSets,” you learned how to create an XSD schema in the Visual Studio .NET user interface by dragging and dropping XML elements from the toolbox. This method is useful when you need to create a schema from scratch. But there will be times when you want to create a schema to match an existing object. In this section, you'll learn about the methods that are available to programmatically generate XSD schemas.

Generating an XSD Schema

One obvious source for an XML Schema is an XML file. An XML file can contain explicit schema information (in the form of an embedded schema) or it can contain implicit schema information ...