XSDObjectGen.exe vs XSD.exe

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.