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Sunday
24Jan2010

Enable Visual Studio Intellisense for DocBook

You can easily plug in XML Schemas to enable Intellisense for certain XML namespaces and file extensions. DocBook includes all of the necessary schemas, so all that's required is a schema catalog.

To make it a little easier, I put together a ZIP file that contains everything you need.

Just unzip it to one of the following locations, depending on your version of Visual Studio:

  • Visual Studio 2005
    C:\Program Files\Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas
  • Visual Studio 2008
    C:\Program Files\Visual Studio 9.0\Xml\Schemas
  • Visual Studio 2010
    C:\Program Files\Visual Studio 10.0\Xml\Schemas

DocBook Intellisense will be enabled for files with the docbook extension. If your solution contains DocBook files, you can simply right-click and choose “Open With…” then select “XML Editor”.

Enjoy!