JavaScript Intellisense for Ext in Visual Studio 2008

[Eric Suen]

Hi, I just create a JavaScript Intellisense for Ext 2.0.1 can be used in Visual Studio 2008. It offers very accurate Ext APIs, and convert Ext style inheritance model to the type Visual Studio can understand.

Please visit http://www.spket.com/ext-intellisense-visual-studio.html for more information.

[J.C. Bize]

Thanks Eric,

Javascript Intellisense support in VS2008 just about drove me crazy on Friday. I find it too "frail" in its current state to be truly useful. Of course what do you know, as soon as I leave the office for the week-end, the VS team releases an update addressing some of these issues.

I'm very excited to try this out! I'll let you know how it goes.

Cheers,
JC

[J.C. Bize]

It's working very well so far. Thanks again, this should be a nice productivity boost.

Cheers,
JC

[DragonFist]

Very cool!

Downloading now.

Does this make use of the <returns> tags? That would be awesome.

Best,

Shawn

[Eric Suen]

Yes, it using <returns> tags, for examples, following code
var w = new Ext.Window();
w.addButton().|

code hints also works after addButton method...

[DragonFist]

very cool, indeed. I'd been working on this in a very slow, as I need it, way. Thanks for finishing it up :D

[J.C. Bize]

very cool, indeed. I'd been working on this in a very slow, as I need it, way. Thanks for finishing it up :D

Shawn, if you feel like Eric's version is not missing anything that was available in your version (http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18751), perhaps you could amend your post and add a link to this one? That would probably help avoid some confusion in the future when people search for Intellisense.

Cheers,
JC

[DragonFist]

I'll need to check into it. The one thing that I noticed is that this version uses the empty functions route that I had started using. I did find that that lost some of the benefit of Visual Studio's pre-compiler. Anyhow, I'd have to wrap my head around it. You know, are those benefits worth the effort and so forth.

Best,

Shawn

Edit: Though I have no problem linking to this one in that thread so that people going to that thread are aware of this one.

[Shados]

This seem to work great. However, maybe I'm just having a airhead moment, but... thats cool to get the intellisense, and using the tag it works fine... but, I still need to refer the REAL scripts to, well, use them...and that will make intellisense's pseudo-compiler complain and remove all intellisense.

How did you guys handle that?

[Gunmen]

Looks really interesting! Can this also made available in Visual Web Developer? Thanks!

[Eric Suen]

Looks really interesting! Can this also made available in Visual Web Developer? Thanks!
You means Visual Web Developer 2005?

[Gunmen]

You means Visual Web Developer 2005?

Hmm, I use Visual Web Developer 2008. ;)

[SteveEisner]

Quick note, though you might have noticed this already:

on some functions, like Ext.get(), you are specifying a return type "Element" instead of "Ext.element". There are other examples as well... Once you fix it, it becomes a lot easier to do DOM manipulation :)

[Eric Suen]

Thanks for report this, I just create an update, you can download it here: http://www.spket.com/ext-intellisense-visual-studio.html

[Eric Suen]

A new version for Ext 2.0.2 is avaiable, please http://www.spket.com for more information

[fsuguinness]

You are the man! This intellisense file is great. Thanks for posting a new version so quick.

[phpcs]

How about config objects' intellisense ?

[XASD]

Are you planning 2.1 version?
Thanks.

[phpcs]

yes,

[Eric Suen]

A new version for Ext 2.1 is avaiable, please http://www.spket.com for more information

[jonhobbs]

Hmm, I use Visual Web Developer 2008. ;)

I use Visual Web Developer 2008 too, I assume there isn't a way to get this working in VWD?

[SilverJo]

Hi,
does it work for any of the Express editions, like VWD 2008 Express SP1?

[mankz]

Any plans for Ext 2.2 intellisense support?

[superbinary]

Any plans for Ext 2.2 intellisense support?
:D yes, i am eagerly for it\:D/

[Eric Suen]

From this thread http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43861 ,seems visutal studio 2008 already support Ext 2.2.

[Eric Suen]

I have upload a new version for Ext 2.2 in case some one may need it

[arthurakay]

This looks very cool, I'm going to give v2.2 a shot. Great job!

[dbassett74]

Tried this, but can't seem to get it to work. I have VS2008 SP1. I added the file to the project directory and added the reference, but Ext is not available in the Intellisense.

[talawahdotnet]

I tried to get this working with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1, but it doesn't seem to work.

Has anyone gotten it working with an Express Edition? Any hints?

[dbassett74]

If it doesn't work in the regular version, it surely won't work in the Express version. I don't understand how they can claim it works when it flat out doesn't. I've tried it on multiple machines. NO Ext Intellisense...