---
title: "[Cool Tool] XML Visualizer for Visual Studio .NET 2003"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/8/cool-tool-xml-visualizer-for-visual-studio-net-2003.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/8/cool-tool-xml-visualizer-for-visual-studio-net-2003.html"
published: "2005-01-08T23:08:00"
updated: "2005-01-08T23:08:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Just got an email from a guy named Michael Bouck about a cool new addin he made. Perhaps he should have added it to Project Distributor as well?: \"Hi Roy, Love your blog feed -- keep it up! I noticed a while back that…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# \[Cool Tool\] XML Visualizer for Visual Studio .NET 2003

By Roy Osherove January 8, 2005 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published January 8, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

Just got an email from a guy named Michael Bouck about a cool new addin he made. Perhaps he should have added it to [Project Distributor](http://projectdistributor.net/) as well?:

_"Hi Roy,

Love your blog feed -- keep it up! I noticed a while back that you blogged about [Mohammed Barqawi's QuickWatch for a DataSet VS.NET add-in](http://www.thecodeproject.com/csharp/DSWatch.asp). I thought the idea was compelling too and over the holidays decided to see how far I could take it (turns out pretty far!) The result is now posted over on GotDotNet:_ [_http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/xmlviz_](http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/xmlviz "http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/xmlviz") _-- check it out!"_

And here's what is says on the GDN site:

**[XMLViz - Summary](http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/xmlviz):**

XML Visualizer for Visual Studio .NET 2003 (XMLVIZ) allows you to visualize most XML and XML-backed data sources during runtime a la Whidbey's "debugger visualizers". The difference is you don't have to wait for VS.NET 2005 because XMLVIZ will work with your copy of VS.NET 2003 today! XMLVIZ is implemented as a VS.NET add-in and, once installed, is activated by highlighting any supported, initialized type instance during a debugging session, right-clicking on the selection to bring-up the context menu, and selecting the "XML Visualizer" menu item. The add-in will then grab the XML out of the selected target instance and display it on a modal dialog along with the schema (if available). For ADO.NET types, the data is also bound to a grid to allow navigation, row-filtering, and row version inspection.

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