XML Tools on the Microsoft XML Tools Team Website - Free .NET XML Tools

XSD Object Code Generator
The utility builds C# and VB.NET data structures from an XSD schema that can serialize and de-serialize to XML and other formats. This tool is available here.

Microsoft XML Diff and Patch
This tool lets you identify changes between two XML files. It also lets you patch the original XML file with the changes to get the final XML file. The assembly, source code, documentation and samples for this tool are now available here.

XSD Schema Validator
Leveraging the top conformant XML Schema Parser released with .Net Frameworks, this tool allows you to validate an XML documents against an W3C XML Schema (XSD) or an XML Data-Reduced (XDR) schema, verify the schemas are valid, or simply check the well-formedness of XML documents.

Microsoft XSD Inference 1.0
The Microsoft XSD Inference utility is used to create an XML Schema definition language (XSD) schema from an XML instance document. When provided with wellformed XML file, the utility generates an XSD that can be used to validate that XML file. You can also refine the XSD generated by providing the tool more wellformed XML files. The download contains the core library, simple command line utility and the source code.

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2 Comments

  • XSD Object Code Generator is a very handy tool. Saves me a lot of time. I wonder why they did not include it in VS.Net 2005

  • Thanks Paschal - that is a very useful set of tools!



    I have been looking for something like this for a long time. It would have saved me a LOT of time on a recent project. I find myself wondering the same thing as Ward above...

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