I've been doing some work using the xsd's and Xml just recently. I've just been populating the Strongly Typed DataSet's created from the xsd generated by my sample Xml with database content.

Found a nice link (http://www.xamlon.com/kb/Article.aspx?id=10180) which shows you how simple it is to populate it from the database. The MSDN link is: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbcondatasets.asp .

It's such an advantage to be able to quickly and easily create strongly typed datasets to pass around so that if changes are made it will catch errors at build time rather than runtime etc. Especially when I am passing these datasets across Web Service Methods which may be used by external sources. By adding Unit Tests I can check these things a lot tighter.