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Designer View Over XML Editor Sample

Provides a WPF Editor when editing XML files that have the '.vstemplate' file extension in Visual Studio.

  • Technologies: Visual Studio 2015 SDK
  • Topics: Visual Studio Shell

Description

This sample demonstrates how to create an extension with 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 .vstemplate files.

Requirements

Visual Studio 2015

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Clone the repo (How to):

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples.git

Run the sample

  1. To run the sample, hitF5 or choose theDebug > Start Debugging menu command. A new experimental instance of Visual Studio will launch.
  2. Once loaded, press theOpen File button. (Ctrl + O)
  3. Browse to the TestTemplates sub-directory within the solution and open a file with the '.vstemplate' file extension.
  4. A new tab opens with the contents of the file laid out in the fields of a WPF form
  5. Navigate to theView menu and click onCode.
  6. An additional tab opens with the contents of the file formatted by the XmlEditor

Project Files

  • AssemblyInfo.cs

This file contains assembly custom attributes.

  • 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 needed to 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.

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