Repost – Reusing the BizTalk Server 2004 Schema Generator Wizard’s Library

This post disappeared from a previous blog of mine so I'm reposting it.

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I've been doing some research on custom adapter development and one of the issues that came up was figuring out how to do the schema generation.  BizTalk Server 2004 includes a wizard that will generate schemas from Xml instance documents.  I decided to figure out how it worked – and if it could be reused.

 

It is possible to reuse this functionality.  Here's how you do it:

 

1. Create a console project.

2. Reference the Microsoft.BizTalk.WFXToXSDGenerator.dll and XSDInfer.dll assemblies in the [installDir]\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004\SDK\Utilities\Schema Generator directory. 

3. Reference the Microsoft.BizTalk.SchemaEditor.Extensibility.dll assembly in the [installDir]\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004\Developer Tools directory.

4. Pull in the Microsoft.BizTalk.WfxToXSDGenerator namespace.

5. Add the following code to your Main method:

 

WfxToXSDGenerator gen = new WfxToXSDGenerator();

 

gen.GenerateSchema(args[0], args[1]);

 

object[] warnings = gen.Warnings();

object[] errors = gen.Errors();

object[] schemas = gen.ReferencedSchemas();

 

if(warnings.Length != 0)

{

Console.WriteLine("Warnings were found:");

 

          for(int i = 0; i < warnings.Length; i++)

          {

        Console.WriteLine(warnings[i].ToString());

          }

 

          Console.ReadLine();

          return;