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    Designer View Over XML Editor: Requirements

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    This document summarizes a sample Visual Studio extension that provides a WPF-based designer view for editing XML files with a specific schema. The extension registers the designer as the preferred editor for .vstemplate files, creates an editor pane with the designer control bound to the XML model, and synchronizes data between the designer fields and underlying XML document. The sample can be built and tested by opening sample template files, which will display their contents in the designer view and XML editor view, with edits updating both tabs.

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    This document summarizes a sample Visual Studio extension that provides a WPF-based designer view for editing XML files with a specific schema. The extension registers the designer as the preferred editor for .vstemplate files, creates an editor pane with the designer control bound to the XML model, and synchronizes data between the designer fields and underlying XML document. The sample can be built and tested by opening sample template files, which will display their contents in the designer view and XML editor view, with edits updating both tabs.

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    This document summarizes a sample Visual Studio extension that provides a WPF-based designer view for editing XML files with a specific schema. The extension registers the designer as the preferred editor for .vstemplate files, creates an editor pane with the designer control bound to the XML model, and synchronizes data between the designer fields and underlying XML document. The sample can be built and tested by opening sample template files, which will display their contents in the designer view and XML editor view, with edits updating both tabs.

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    Designer View Over XML Editor: Requirements

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    This document summarizes a sample Visual Studio extension that provides a WPF-based designer view for editing XML files with a specific schema. The extension registers the designer as the preferred editor for .vstemplate files, creates an editor pane with the designer control bound to the XML model, and synchronizes data between the designer fields and underlying XML document. The sample can be built and tested by opening sample template files, which will display their contents in the designer view and XML editor view, with edits updating both tabs.

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    Designer View Over Xml Editor

    This sample demonstrates how to create an extension that provides a WPF-based Visual Designer for
    editing XML files with a specific schema (XSD) in coordination with the Visual Studio XML Editor.

    In this sample we implement a basic view for a .vstemplate file.

    Requirements

     Visual Studio 2010


     Visual Studio 2010 SDK

    Getting Started
    1. Download and unzip the sample
    2. Open the solution file
    3. Build the solution
    4. Open the Visual Studio experimental instance by pressing F5

    Files
     VsTemplateDesignerPackage.cs – registers the designer, via
    ProvideXmlEditorChooserDesignerView, as the preferred editor view for files with the
    .vstemplate extension and indicated schema
     EditorFactory.cs – determines if the document to be edited already exists (was already opened
    in the XML Editor view), rather than assuming it must be created; creates the designer’s
    EditorPane as the new Editor
     EditorPane.cs – creates the sited designer control and associated XmlModel for the file and text
    buffer
     IViewModel.cs – expresses the interface needed to bind the designer controls to the
    XmlSchema
     ViewModel.cs – implements IViewModel and manages the events that synchronize data
    between the fields in the designer and the underlying XML document, which may also be seen in
    the XML Editor
     VsDesignerControl.xaml[.cs] – implements the WPF controls expressing the designer interface
    and binds them to the ViewModel
     VsTemplateSchema.cs – XML schema file generated via
    xsd.exe vstemplate.xsd /classes /e /n:MyNameSpace

    To test the sample functionality


    1. On the File menu, click Open
    2. Browse to the TestTemplates sub-directory within the solution.
    3. Select and Open one of the files.
    4. A new tab opens with the contents of the file laid out in the fields of a WPF form.
    5. On the View menu, click Code
    6. An additional tab opens with the contents of the file formatted by the XmlEditor
    7. Editing in either tab will also update the contents of the other tab (although you must tab out of
    a form field before the update is sent to the underlying document).

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