The Data View Support XML file allows a DDEX provider to present the objects on their data source in the form of one or more hierarchies. It builds on information from the Data Object Support XML file which defines the data source in terms of a set of objects. Represents the root element in the file. Imports definitions from another data view support source. Specifies a name that identifies the source to import. This name will be passed to the provider's IVsDataSupportImportResolver. Defines a shareable fragment of data view support. Specifies the name of this definition. Specifies the parameters expected by this definition. Parameters give a way to transform the contents of a define based on inputs from the inserting element. A parameter value is a string that can be substituted in attribute or element values using the format "$(name)". The format of this attribute is a comma-delimited list of parameter names. These names can only contain letters or digits. Inserts definitions in place of this element. Specifies the name of the definition to insert. Specifies the arguments to pass to the definition as a comma- delimited list of strings. If a value contains a comma, the comma can be embedded in the value by specifying a double comma (",,"). Represents the list of views that present the objects on the provider's data source in the form of one or more hierarchies. Represents information that specifies the default view when there are multiple views defined, based on the source version. If at runtime multiple default views are found, the first one will be chosen. Specifies the programmatic name of a view to pick as a default. Represents the definition of a view. Represents the display name of the view. If there are multiple views, this display name is shown in the list of available views when the user is picking which view to use. If unspecified, the programmatic name of the view is used. Specifies the programmatic name of the view. Specifies a custom drag source provider type as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetType() method. Represents commands displayed in a global location like a main menu that are not otherwise associated with specific nodes in the view. Specifies a custom command provider type as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetType() method. Represents the initial display name of the connection node. This is only the initial display name because the user can modify the name of a connection node after it has been created. Specifies the name of the type of object represented by this node. The object type must either have no identifier or have a "default" identifier in the sense that the IVsDataObjectIdentifierResolver implementation can expand an empty identifier to a complete one. If not specified, the connection node is assumed to be static. Represents a node that does not have an object. The node is defined only by information specified underneath this element. Represents a display name for this node. Specifies an expression that when evaluated to true, indicates that this node should be skipped. The default is false, to always include the node. Represents a node that has a source object taken from the result of executing the selection described by the parent Selection element. Represents a display name for this node. If unspecified, the name defaults to the unqualified name of the source object, or the full identifier if the source object does not have a name property. Represents a specification of or reference to a display name resource string with a conditional expression to decide if it is applicable. Specifies an expression to evaluate to determine if this display name is applicable. The default is the name is always applicable. Specifies a custom caption provider type as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetType() method. If this attribute is specified the resource attribute is ignored. Represents elements that are common to both static and selection nodes. Represents an icon for a node. Specifies an expression to evaluate to determine if this icon should be used for the node. The default is that it should always be used. Specifies the name of an icon to use. This name can be either chosen from a common set of available icons or it can be the name of a resource embedded in an assembly. The latter requires specifying the assembly attribute. Specifies the assembly that contains the icon specified by the name attribute as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetAssembly() method. To use the main provider assembly, specify an empty string. Specifies a custom icon provider type as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetType() method. If this attribute is specified the icon and assembly attributes are ignored. Represents attributes that are common to static and selection nodes. Specifies a custom visibility provider type as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetType() method. Represents elements that are common to connection nodes, static nodes and selection nodes. Represents attributes that are common to connection nodes, static nodes and selection nodes. Specifies an identifier that allows children of this node to uniquely reference this node for purposes of retrieving object properties. Specifies a custom user context provider type as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetType() method. Specifies a custom drop target provider type as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetType() method. Represents the properties of a node displayed in the properties window. If unspecified and the node is a selection node, a default set of properties based on the source object is created and shown. Represents a display name for the type of this node, if applicable. If unspecified, the display name of static nodes or the programmatic name of object types of selection nodes is used respectively. Specifies a custom browse object provider type as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetType() method. Specifies a value indicating if a browse object should still be created when a custom browse object provider is specified. If true, the default browse object will be created based on information under this element, and then this object will be passed to the provider's view browse object provider GetBrowseObject() method for further customization. If false, no default browse object will be created and the IVsDataViewBrowseObjectProvider implementation is expected to produce a browse object from scratch. The default is true. Represents a property of a node displayed in the properties window. Represents the display name of the property. If unspecified, the programmatic name is used. Represents the category of the property. If unspecified, the default (miscellaneous) category is used. Represents the description of the property, if any. Represents the value of the property, if applicable. If this property is on a selection node and its name is equal to the name of a property on the source object, this attribute is ignored. Specifies the programmatic name of the property. When the enclosing node element is a static node, this name is purely for programmatic access to the information. When the encosing node element is a selection node and the values of this property should be taken from the source object, this name should match a property name defined on the source object type. Represents a set of standard values for a property of a node displayed in the properties window. This can be specified when the value of a property comes from a standard set and each value in this set should be translated into a resource string that can be displayed to the user. Represents a standard value for a property of a node displayed in the properties window. Describes a mapping of a value to a resource string. Specifies the value from the source object property in its default string form (the equivalent of calling ToString()). Represents the commands of a node displayed in the node's context menu. Specifies a custom command provider type as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetType() method. Represents a command of a node displayed in the node's context menu. Specifies the GUID of the command group that contains the command. Specifies the ID of the command in the command group that contains the command. The format of this string may be a decimal integer or in hexadecimal format by prepending "0x" before the number. Specifies a custom command provider type as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetType() method. If unspecified, the provider should supply a global implementation as a service on their data view support object. If parameters are specified, it is expected that the implementation implements IVsDataSupportObject. Specifies whether this command should be invoked as the default action. If multiple commands specify true for the value of this attribute, the first such command listed is chosen as the default. Represents a set of parameters that can be passed to a command. Represents a parameter that can be passed to a command. Specifies the type of the parameter value as a standard .NET framework type. The default is "System.String". Specifies the value of the parameter as a string that can be parsed into the type specified by the type attribute. Represents a set of nodes that have a source object, where each object is taken from the result of selecting objects from the data object store service based on information specified by attributes of this element. Specifies the name of the type of object that should be selected. Specifies restrictions that should be passed to the selector. The format of this string is a comma-delimited list of restriction values that may include data specifiers or null to represent no restriction. Specifies properties that should be passed to the selector. The format of this string is a comma-delimited list of property names. Specifies a filter that should be passed to the object store. A filter may include data specifiers. Specifies an ordering that should be passed to the object store. Specifies an expression that when evaluated to true, indicates that this selection of nodes should be skipped. The default is false, to always include the selection of nodes. Represents the children of a node. Represents resources that may be referenced by resource elements. Specifies the base name of a string resource embedded in an assembly. Specifies the assembly that contains the string resource identified with the baseName attribute as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetAssembly() method. Ignored if baseName is not present. If unspecified, the provider's main assembly is used. Specifies a custom resource manager type inherited from System.Resources.ResourceManager as a string that can be resolved by the provider's object factory GetType() method. If baseName is not present, it will attempt to create an instance of the type with no parameters. Otherwise the instance is created by passing the base name and specified assembly (or default to provider's main assembly). Represents a resource that may be referenced by resource elements. Specifies the name of the resource. Represents a specification of or reference to a resource string. Specifies the name of the resource. If specified, this overrides any string specified as part of this element. Represents elements that can be versioned by specifying a minimum and maximum source version to which the element applies. Specifies the minimum source version required for this element. Specifies the maximum source version supported by this element.