IntelliSense-like addin

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Merak - 09 Oct 2004 09:56 GMT

Is it possible to create a VS.NET addin providing a feature similar to
Microsoft's IntelliSense? I don't want to add it inside a textbox in a
project of mine, but inside the VS.NET code editor.

I got lost in the extensibility reference. Which events should I listen to
to react to code editing?

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Carlos J. Quintero [MVP] - 11 Oct 2004 08:46 GMT

In VS.NET 2002/2003 using the normal extensibility model for add-ins you can
only trap the TextEditorEvents.LineChanged event, which won´t be enough for
your purposes. So, you have to use VSIP
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/vsipoverview/).

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> Is it possible to create a VS.NET addin providing a feature similar to
> Microsoft's IntelliSense? I don't want to add it inside a textbox in a
> project of mine, but inside the VS.NET code editor.
>
> I got lost in the extensibility reference. Which events should I listen to
> to react to code editing?

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psatiw - 17 Dec 2004 10:33 GMT

Hi!

I'm looking for the same thing, and have been doing so for quite a while
now. However, I HAVE searched the VSIP for that feature as well, and even
downloaded it, but I still can't find it. Can you please specify where in the
VSIP one can find such feature?

Regards,
psatiw

> In VS.NET 2002/2003 using the normal extensibility model for add-ins you can
> only trap the TextEditorEvents.LineChanged event, which won´t be enough for
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> > I got lost in the extensibility reference. Which events should I listen to
> > to react to code editing?

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Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP] - 22 Dec 2004 10:33 GMT

I haven´t used VSIP, and I don´t know if it has such an example, I only
pointed that you cannot that with an add-in because you only have teh
LineChanged event, you need some low level stuff, and that is VSIP. Surely
it will provide an event that is fired for each keystroke.

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> Hi!
>
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> Regards,
> psatiw

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Gaston Milano - 30 Dec 2004 18:22 GMT

Yes when you use VSIP you can add a viewfilter to any view and you can catch
whatever you want. Additionally you can implement your specific language
service in order to create features like intellisense, infotips, etc for
your own language.

Regards,
Gaston

> I haven´t used VSIP, and I don´t know if it has such an example, I only
> pointed that you cannot that with an add-in because you only have teh
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> > Regards,
> > psatiw

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Bill Foust - 16 Feb 2005 19:24 GMT

Can you reccommend any examples of this? this is something I would like to
do as well!

bill

> Yes when you use VSIP you can add a viewfilter to any view and you can catch
> whatever you want. Additionally you can implement your specific language
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> > > Regards,
> > > psatiw

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