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Various online sources tell me I can find it @ %VSINSTALLDIR%\Xml\Schemas\natvis.xsd. But I have not been able to find it in the said path. I have checked multiple VS2010 and VS2012 installations. Can anyone paste the schema definition here? Any additional documentation would be awesome

sreyas
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Hans Passant commented with the right answer, but it's not immediately obvious from his posting why you (or I) originally couldn't find it, which is:

The natvis XSD isn't found in \Schemas, but in \Schemas\1033.

You have to dig one level deeper to find it, because apparently Microsoft thinks it's code-page-localized or something. Anyway, here's where I located it in my copies of Visual Studio:

Visual Studio 2012:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Xml\Schemas\1033\natvis.xsd

Visual Studio 2013:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Xml\Schemas\1033\natvis.xsd

Also, for what it's worth, the URL that Microsoft provides for the schema, http://schemas.microsoft.com/vstudio/debugger/natvis/2010, is a 3xx redirect as of this writing, so don't bother looking there.

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    Here is a link to a schema: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/natvis#_schema working as of today. – A.J. Apr 28 '22 at 17:28
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Visual Studio 2017:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Xml\Schemas\1033\natvis.xsd

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  • Of course, replace "Professional" with your respective SKU (Enterprise in my case) C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Xml\Schemas\1033\natvis.xsd – kornman00 Nov 13 '19 at 07:04