I’ve come across a french guy’s blog who has created an intellisens xsd generator for the atlas framework.
He says it’s not perfect but I’ll take whatever I can get that saves me from writing full words. It’s not perfect in the sense that it doesn’t show you if something is allowed there or not.
The link to the article about the intellisense generator:
http://blogs.developpeur.org/cyril/archive/2006/04/19/Intellisense_pour_Atlas_c_est_possible_generation_schema_xsd_en_javascript.aspx
To install the xsd just extract this file to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas
The next step is to separate the xml script from your aspx page so it doesn’t look so cluttered anymore. Also the intellisense will only work in the xml editor. The same guy has written another post on how to do just that.
The link to his article : http://blogs.developpeur.org/cyril/archive/2006/04/29/Atlas_Charge_un_fichier_xml_script_externe_dans_une_application_ATLAS_grace_a_Ajax.aspx
The english explanation :
link to your atlas xml file like this : <link type=”text/xml-script” href=”DynamicLoad.atlas” />
And next add some javascript to the page :
Sys.Application.load.add(function(){
var linkElements = document.getElementsByTagName(‘link’);
for (var i = 0; i < linkElements.length; i++){
linkElement = linkElements[i];
if (linkElement.type= ‘text/xml-script’ && linkElement.href){
var request = new Sys.Net.WebRequest();
request.set_url(linkElement.href);
request.completed.add(function(e){
Sys.MarkupParser.processDocumentScripts(Sys.Application.getMarkupContext(), e.get_xml().childNodes, null);
});
request.invoke();
}
}
});
Hi Mr. Ivan
I read your article "Intellisense for Atlas Xml Script", and I really liked it. But I am wondering how can I refrence the built-in intellisence in Visual Studio just the way Resharper does? My graduation Project is about code refactory and I need to refrence the internal intellisence of Visual Studio. Do you have any ideas?
Thanks very much and am sorry for consuming your time
Yours Sincerely,
Ahmed AL-Sayed