Child language and Intellisense

Hi Chris,

In that scenario, you'd need your root language to have IntelliPrompt services that are wrappers for each language-specific IntelliPrompt provider.  They'd probably want to look at the requested offset/context to see if it's your parent or child language and then chain off to the appropriate child IntelliPrompt provider.

On a side note, we do have an internal sample of an ASP-like language that has a child language from the .NET Languages Add-on and shows how to get the child language to have automated IntelliPrompt.  If you'd like that, send us an e-mail since it sounds like it may be close to what you're trying to do.

Thanks Chris,

I was able to get the demo working but noticed that it was not getting the intellisense right, I tested it by creating a class and then tried to create an instance of that class but it did not show up in the intellense.  Any pointers on how to support that?

Frank

Hi Frank,

Right now the sample is just set up to show how to do <%= ... %> sort of blocks, which means code wrapped with a Response.Write output.  You can see in the ParentParser.Parse method how this all is done.  That method alters the output of what gets sent to the parser. 

You would need to alter that to support other styles of blocks, such as <% ... %> appropriately.  Maybe we can look into this further soon and see if we enhance it further for that sort of thing as a reference.  But it shouldn't be too hard to do so on your own.

Quick update... in the upcoming 2014.2 version, we are going to be including a sample that shows both <% ... %> and <%= ... %> blocks.

Has there been any more work on child languages with this lastest 2016 release?  I was able to use the samples you provided 2 years ago to get it working but I am still having some issues.  For some reason, I can not get the intellisense to work as well as it does for just C#/VB.Net.  In my project with child languages (I am trying to provide an editor for T4)  things like generic collections and linq extensions do not appear in the completion list.  Any guidance or an updated sample would be great.

Hi Frank,

We did add an official refined sample of ASP style tags in the last year or so.  Look at the DotNetAddonServerTags QuickStart in the SyntaxEditor samples.