ASP.NET Ajax-aware JavaScript IntelliSense available from the Orcas CTP

re: ASP.NET Ajax-aware JavaScript IntelliSense available from the Orcas CTP

Bertrand Le Roy — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:30:32 GMT

Stefan: it's a combination of partial script execution, inferring types from the context and taking hints from doc comments. Does this help?

re: ASP.NET Ajax-aware JavaScript IntelliSense available from the Orcas CTP

Stefan Dobrev — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:39:37 GMT

The features definitely rocks.

Can you reveal more secrets about the "elegant solution" that is implemented.

re: ASP.NET Ajax-aware JavaScript IntelliSense available from the Orcas CTP

Herr Ziffer — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:05:56 GMT

This is an absolutely awesome feature. Javascript is definitely the poor stepchild of the programming world, which is probably why it has taken this long for anyone to devote the resources to doing Javascript intellisense.

It is also my understanding that there was some debate about whether to include this feature or not, and how much demand there actually was for it. There's alot!

And while it may devalue the hard-earned skills of the expert javascript writers, somewhat, it is a great boon to the rest of us.

re: ASP.NET Ajax-aware JavaScript IntelliSense available from the Orcas CTP

Bertrand Le Roy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:27:12 GMT

Steve: sure, that's why we include them only in the debug version of the scripts. In release mode, there are no comments, no parameter validation, and the script is crunched (as few spaces as possible, no newlines, local variables are renamed to be shorter).

But in debug mode, the focus is on ease of programming and debugging and we don't watch size that much.

re: ASP.NET Ajax-aware JavaScript IntelliSense available from the Orcas CTP

Steve — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:18:29 GMT

All those comments in javascript will bloat the size of the js files won't they?