Question

We are attempting to use a SQL Server 2003 database for our test records and want a quick way to take NUnit and NAnt output and produce SQL schema and data. Is there a simple way to generate SQL Schema using the XSD file describing these XML documents?

Answer 1

You could use XSD. No, I’m serious. Go to a command prompt and type xsd and press Enter.

Here’s what you will see (truncated):

I:\>xsd Microsoft (R) Xml Schemas/DataTypes support utility [Microsoft (R) .NET Framework, Version 1.0.3705.0] Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1998-2001. All rights reserved.   xsd.exe -     Utility to generate schema or class files from given source.  xsd.exe <schema>.xsd /classes|dataset [/e:] [/l:] [/n:] [/o:] [/uri:] xsd.exe <assembly>.dll|.exe [/outputdir:] [/type: [...]] xsd.exe <instance>.xml [/outputdir:] xsd.exe <schema>.xdr [/outputdir:] 

Just follow the instructions.