Hi,
You are right, something could be done in this area.
We are also thinking of developping a gui to build ERSDE query.
Something else we are thinking of is the ability to use SQL Query syntax.
What do you think?
Regards,

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Frederic LATOUR
ENESYS

Here is a little example around using intellisense in VS2005 to test your query (thanks to Bo for a little help with this).  This is far short of having intellisense on the entire Data view, but it is a start.

1. Open a new XML file in VS2005.
2. Put in code like that below.
3. Check the properties pane in VS2005 for your file and verify that the Schemas property is set to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML\wss.xsd.
4. Modify the Schemas property if required.  Note that the xmlns value must be exactly as shown below (including the trailing "/").

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<List xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
 <MetaData>
  <Views>
   <View>
    <Query>
     <Where>
      
     </Where>
     <OrderBy>
      
     </OrderBy>
    </Query>
   </View>
  </Views>
 </MetaData>
</List>

Once you have done this you can start putting more in the Where clause, etc.

Now, what would be nice is an enesys.xsd that made use of these provided xsds and gave us intellisense for the enesys-specific portion of the XML in the data view.

Kirk
www.threewill.com