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Automatically generate XSD to C# in Visual Studio IDE

I am running Visual Studio 2010. I have a XSD schema and want to use xsd.exe tool to generate appropriate C# file. I have done this successfully from a command line but now I want to do the same from IDE.

Is there some well-known route for this? I have managed to use a pre-build event but I hate to have the tool running on each build. Normally, it should only run when XSD changes.

Adding the generated .cs file to project puts it under .xsd of the same name, so the IDE knows they are related.

I know I can set "Custom Tool" on my .xsd but I am not sure if that achieves the desired effect. I was hoping for a more straightforward way.

And ultimately, VS2010 cannot execute XSD.EXE because it lives in the SDK folder and the path known to VS obviously does not include it.

Any suggestions are welcome!

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You can check out Xsd2Code for a VS addin that does this interactively. The author is also working on a VS2010 version, as far as I know.

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marc_s  2010-06-07 16:36:02
Thanks! I was hoping for something that would use XSD.EXE from Windows SDK but this is OK too. And btw, the add-in works with VS 2010.
wpfwannabe  2010-06-07 20:06:49
This solution requires the installation of the tool into all instances of visual studio. Do you know of anything that does not require installation of a plugin?
yamspog  2010-06-08 18:14:26
@yamspog: no, I don't - all the other solutions I know are just different plugins / extensions for VS, basically.
marc_s  2010-06-08 19:46:02

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