Thanks for the update. I emailed Geoffrey about this. I want to reverse engineer Typed Dataset XSDs from the .NET platform (ADO.NET).
I am happy to help in building this. I suppose I would need to go from XSD to XMI and then import the XMI... That could be an XSLT transform perhaps.
Something to think about..Right now I can use the integrated VS 2003 XSD editer to do this but I am trying to get clients of mine to use Sparx in more and ore ways.
I have built an add-in to Visual Studio 2003 that generates typed datasets and includes the 'Annotations'
feature which helps... I generate these from .NET providers using a little known fetaure of the IdbAdapter to fill another DataSet with just schema info, the write that DS out using the method that writes out the schema (XSD). I then manipulate the XSD to add the annotations (for names and null handling).
Kind Regards,
Damon
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