Visual Studio 2008 XML Designer

[Jay Dee]

Hi all.

I am having difficulty using Visual Studio 2008 to produce an XML
Schema.
I have worked with Visual Studio and CSharp for Application
Development for a few years but have not done much with web work.

I started following the video tutorials from LearnVisualStudeo.NET
from the category;

Visual Studio.NET XML Designer

The video explains how to create a new schema file but when I do this
Visual Studio displays the code view for the schema and the tutorial
displays a designer.

I Google “visual studio xml designer” and I am taken to this web page

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171943(VS.71).aspx

That has a note that states;

This page is specific to Microsoft Visual Studio 2003/.NET Framework
1.1
This page is specific to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/.NET Framework
2.0

I have Visual Studio 2008 installed and there douse not appear to be a
specific page for 2008. I would assume backward compatibility and the
designer is still available in 2008 but I am not sure.

My question;

Can anybody tell me why the designer is missing from my installation
of visual studio or if I am just missing something to enable it. I
have bean kicking myself for about a week now because it seems like
such a dumb thing to get stuck on.

Many thanks for any help.

Jay Dee

[Cerebrus]

The XSD Designer was removed from VS 2008. The only remnant is the
Dataset designer (which, if used to edit any XSD will effectively
convert the XSD to a Dataset). A non-visual "Xml Schema Explorer" was
added in VS 2008 SP1 as a poor substitute and customers were told that
a full featured XSD designer is under development but could not be
released in time for the release of VS 2008.

However, if you've seen VS 2010, you'd be very impressed with the new
Xml Schema designer which is 'Oh-so-cool !'