Intellisense in Visual Studio

A Brilliant Idea

This is a follow on post to my last post on CC.Net goodies. I thought the idea of having Intellisense in Visual Studio for CruiseControl.Net config files was brilliant. So, initially I stated my purpose for looking around was to find an XSD schema file so I could enable Intellisense in Visual Studio. Much to my sorrow I couldn’t find any XSD schemas

However the documentation on configuring CruiseControl.Net is pretty thorough (Read it here) – in fact it’s some of the best documentation I’ve seen for this type of thing. So I decided to quickly knock up an XSD file from the documentation.

Now I’m not an XSD expert (although I do use it occasionally at work), so it’s not going to be perfect. In fact, I can’t even take the credit for most of it, as I just copied and pasted from the online documentation (so any mistakes are probably copying errors). And the final limitation – I got lazy. After three hours of copying and pasting I gave up on completing the source control blocks (plus I’m not sure of the best way of doing them anyway). So the only source control blocks you can currently configure are svn and vss. I’ll add the others later when I get some time.

So here is my work to date: CC.Net Config.xsd.

Enjoy