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Here’s a snippet which has saved me a great deal of time lately. It’s a simple function which takes in a XmlSchema-object and returns it in a string-format.

<span id="lnum1" style="color: #606060">   1:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">Private</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">Function</span> SchemaAsString(<span style="color: #0000ff">ByVal</span> schema <span style="color: #0000ff">As</span> XmlSchema) <span style="color: #0000ff">As</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">String</span>

<span id="lnum2" style="color: #606060">   2:</span>&nbsp; 

<span id="lnum3" style="color: #606060">   3:</span>     Using memStream <span style="color: #0000ff">As</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">New</span> MemoryStream(1024)

<span id="lnum4" style="color: #606060">   4:</span>&nbsp; 

<span id="lnum5" style="color: #606060">   5:</span>         schema.Write(memStream)

<span id="lnum6" style="color: #606060">   6:</span>         memStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin)

<span id="lnum7" style="color: #606060">   7:</span>&nbsp; 

<span id="lnum8" style="color: #606060">   8:</span>         Using reader <span style="color: #0000ff">As</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">New</span> StreamReader(memStream)

<span id="lnum9" style="color: #606060">   9:</span>&nbsp; 

<span id="lnum10" style="color: #606060">  10:</span>             <span style="color: #0000ff">Dim</span> result = reader.ReadToEnd

<span id="lnum11" style="color: #606060">  11:</span>             <span style="color: #0000ff">Return</span> result

<span id="lnum12" style="color: #606060">  12:</span>&nbsp; 

<span id="lnum13" style="color: #606060">  13:</span>         <span style="color: #0000ff">End</span> Using

<span id="lnum14" style="color: #606060">  14:</span>&nbsp; 

<span id="lnum15" style="color: #606060">  15:</span>     <span style="color: #0000ff">End</span> Using

<span id="lnum16" style="color: #606060">  16:</span>&nbsp; 

<span id="lnum17" style="color: #606060">  17:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">End</span> Function

This is useful if you obtain a XmlSchema-object from somewhere and want to do some Linq to Xml queries over it.

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