Get Intellisense when editing XSL/XSLT in Visual Studio .NET 2003

Background

It has always frustrated me that there is no intellisense when   working with XSL/XSLT  documents in Visual Studio .NET 2003. I read an interesting   weblog article that   talks about creating schemas for custom file types. From this I realised I could make a schema definition for XSL/XSLT that would enable intellisense in Visual Studio .NET.

Download

For those who don't want to write the schema themselves, the schema for XSL/XSLT is provided as a download. If you have find any corrections or updates, let me know via email (ross @ radsoftware.com.au).

XslSchema.zip (~10 KB)

How to install

1. Download the XslSchema.zip file from the link above
2. For Visual Studio .NET 2002 unzip the contents of the zip file into
   

   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\Packages\schemas\xml

   or the appropriate location if you have an non-default installation
   
3. For Visual Studio .NET 2003 unzip the contents of the zip file into
   

   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Packages\schemas\xml

   or the appropriate location if you have an non-default installation
   
4. Create a new XSL/XSLT document in Visual Studio .NET

What does it look like?

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

More Information

This topic is covered in more depth in the MSDN article "Visual Studio .NET Schema Annotations" (search for 'requireattributequotes' in MSDN)