Maybe I was sleeping and I missed this but it’s great.

Wish:

At the MMS 2009 I had a wish to develop my MP as RAW using Visual studio 2008. So I asked to the OpsMgr team guys if I could use the MP schema files to verify on the fly my RAW MP code. Because this would leave out the extra step by running the MPverify tool and so speeding up my develop process.

The Answer:

NOP not possible.

But:

As times fly's we have now Visual studio 2010 and now it is possible!

Thanks to Steve Wilson's blog for waking me up again.

Steps to take:

1. Open VS 2010

2. Add a new XML file

3. Add this tag below as the first line:

<ManagementPack xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="c:\MPSchema\ManagementPackSchema.xsd" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

</ManagementPack>

4. Change the path “c:\MPSchema\ManagementPackSchema.xsd” to the Path where your “ManagementPackSchema.xsd” is standing. Most of the time is will be “C:\Program Files\System Center MP Authoring Console 2007\MP Schema\ManagementPackSchema.xsd”

5. And start developing your MP

Michel