XSDObjectGen.exe vs XSD.exe

问题

Can anyone tell me what is the difference between XSDObjectGen.exe & XSD.exe?

Is there any way to make XSDObjectGen.exe work in dot net 2.0?

回答1:

As an alternative, there's Xsd2Code. Some features:

Generate partial class.
Support generic and custom collection (List, ObservableCollection, MyCustomCollection).
Support automatic properties when no special get or set is required.
Can generate WCF attributes (DataContract/DataMember).
Support nillable type.
Mask private field in IDE (use EditorBrowsableState.Never attribute).
Generate object allocation in constructor.
Implement INotifyPropertyChanged for enable DataBinding for wpf or Silverlight.
Improves productivity with visual studio add-in.
Generate summary documentation from xsd annotation.
Check if the new and old values int setter are the same before raising property changed event.
backup options generation in cs or vb header.
Save and load Xml document into isolated file storage for silverlight app (new in 3.0).
Generate CS, VB or CPP code.
Serialize/deserialize object.
Save into file and load from file.
Include Xsd2CodeCustomTool.

回答2:

The difference is:

The XML Schema Definition Tool (xsd.exe) is part of the Visual Studio SDK and has basic functionality.
The XSD Sample Code Generator Tool (XSDObjectGen.exe) is a more fully featured tool with more advanced features, and is released separately.

To give you some idea, here is a summary feature list for XSDObjectGen.exe:

Support for the most popular XML schema constructs
Enumerator and Collection behavior for repeating elements
Programming model that matches schema
Automatic sub-class construction
Name collision avoidance
Visual Studio IDE integration
Special handling logic for DateTime types
Multipart schema support
XML namespace serialization
Optional and Sequence support
Choice Support
Substitution group
MakeSchemaCompliant method
Non-optional reference-type handling
WS-I.org basic profile compliance
Multi-programming language support
Depth-wise Traversal Events

For more details on these features see the XSDObjectGen.doc documentation file (available in C:\Program Files\XSDObjectGenerator after you install the tool).

回答3:

Looks like you can use it with VS2005 at least (according to this article, anyway)

Just add it to your External Tools collection of VS2005 under "Tools>>External Tools...".

Set your parameters as the following

For VB: $(ItemPath) /l:vb /f:$(ItemFileName).vb /c /d /t
For C#: $(ItemPath) /l:cs /f:$(ItemFileName).vb /c /d /t

It does appear that XSD and XSDObjectGen will yield different classes. In fact, comments in this Rick Strahl article say "they yield very different classes" in the article here.