VS.NET 2003 thinks C# has templates

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Christoph Nahr - 08 Oct 2004 08:44 GMT

I don't know if this will be fixed this side of Whidbey, but I just
discovered an IntelliSense error in Visual Studio .NET 2003.

When you type "if (foo bar >)", place the cursor left of "bar", and
type "<", IntelliSense pops up a list of types -- apparently thinking
you're about to define a template!

This curious sequence "(foo bar >)" can appear quite naturally when
the original line was "(bar > foo)" and I'm inverting the direction of
comparison via cut & paste, by the way. That's how I found the error.

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Scott M. - 11 Oct 2004 16:28 GMT

Are you sure you just haven't stumbled on the VS.NET attribute syntax?

I can't say about C#, but in VB.NET, if you want to mark a class member with
a compiler flag, you put <> in front of the member and inside the <>,
intelliSense will pop up to help you decide which attribute to use.

>I don't know if this will be fixed this side of Whidbey, but I just
> discovered an IntelliSense error in Visual Studio .NET 2003.
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> the original line was "(bar > foo)" and I'm inverting the direction of
> comparison via cut & paste, by the way. That's how I found the error.

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Christoph Nahr - 12 Oct 2004 06:53 GMT

>Are you sure you just haven't stumbled on the VS.NET attribute syntax?
>
>I can't say about C#, but in VB.NET, if you want to mark a class member with
>a compiler flag, you put <> in front of the member and inside the <>,
>intelliSense will pop up to help you decide which attribute to use.

Hmm... I guess that's another possible source for the bug but it's
still a bug nonetheless. :) C# surrounds attributes are by square
brackets, not angled ones. I can't think of any C# language element
that is surrounded by <>.

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