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Two old designers in VS 2005 have been removed from Orcas product. There are several reasons why they are removed:
1, there will be a brand new schema designer built into VS. However, because of schedule issues, it is not in Orcas, but will be released off-cycle;
2, the two old designers depend on some old components of HTML designer. In Orcas, the HTML designer is replaced, and those components are gone/replaced. It becomes too costly to maintain them, especially when a new designer comes out soon.
3, the old schema designer also depend on a designer surface implemented in an old COM package, which is about to be removed.
Currently, there is no plan to build a new data grid editor, which view/edit an XML file in a data grid. The old designer only targets data set files, and it is very limited. It will be interesting to see whether people need it before spending time on it.