Visual Studio 2005 as a WSDL Editor

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While spelunking around in VS 2005, I found an amazingly cool Code Snippet - the "Code Snippet" snippet (found at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\xml\1033\expansions\snippet.xml on my box).
 
In addition to this nice "meta-snippet," Chris Lovett and the gang have included a boatload of XML Schema snippets to reduce the tedium of defining things like this:
 
            <xs:complexType name="name">
                <xs:simpleContent>
                    <xs:extension base="xs:string">
                        <xs:attribute name="attName"></xs:attribute>
                    </xs:extension>
                </xs:simpleContent>
            </xs:complexType>
Between the two of these finds, I was overcome by the urge to create a corresponding set of snippets for creating and editing WSDL/1.1 files.
 
I've uploaded the first pass of my WSDL/1.1 snippets at http://www.pluralsight.com/dbox/wsdlsnippets.zip
 
Comments/flames welcome (hey, my blog has comments!).

Posted Nov 13 2004, 06:07 AM by don-box

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Christian Weyer: Smells like service spirit wrote VS 2005 as a rudimentary, code-level WSDL editor
on 11-13-2004 5:20 AM
Don Box wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 as a WSDL Editor
on 11-13-2004 10:53 AM
Christian,

I agree that the experience one gets with these snippets is quite rudimentary.

I think you misspoke when you used the term "code-level."

There's no sign of code anywhere when you use these snippets.

Had you said "text-level" then I'd have agreed with you 100%.

DB
Christian Weyer wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 as a WSDL Editor
on 11-19-2004 6:00 AM
So let's agree on 'text', absolutely. It was not meant to say 'code', sorry.

Christian
Service Station wrote WSDL and XSD Code Snippets
on 11-23-2004 2:46 AM
Jason Haley wrote Interesting Finds this week
on 11-24-2004 5:24 PM
Interesting Finds this week
Geykel wrote OT: Visual Studio 2005 and 2003
on 12-13-2004 9:27 AM
hello,

sorry, this is an off topic feedback, how can I run in the same PC .net framwork 1.1 and 2.0 (or VS.NET 2005 beta and 2003) without compatibility problems in IIS with my web applications.

thanks
Dan Fernandez's Blog wrote VS 2005 Code Snippets for WSDL
on 01-07-2005 8:01 PM
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on 05-16-2005 1:08 AM
Jeffrey Schlimmer's Blog wrote Writing WSDL using Code Snippets
on 06-23-2005 12:23 PM
wsdl wrote re: Visual Studio 2005 as a WSDL Editor
on 09-28-2005 1:59 AM
<xs:complexType name="name">
<xs:simpleContent>
<xs:extension base="xs:string">
<xs:attribute name="attName"></xs:attribute>
</xs:extension>
</xs:simpleContent>
</xs:complexType>

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