Getting Intellisense for Silverlight in VS 2008

Silverlight

I've had a number of people ask me about intellisense with Silverlight 1.0 on VS 2008.  The trick is to *not* use the WPF Editor (the one that won't show Silverlight WPF anyway).  To make it work:

  • Right click the XAML file in the solution and pick "Open With...". 
  • Pick "XML Editor"
  • Click "Set as Default" if you want it to always open XAML files in the XML Editor...

Voila...

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Interesting. I sometimes get intellisense in the silverlight xaml, but it is not reliable (usually closing the file and reopening will fix it). I don't recall changing the default xaml editor, but maybe I did at some point.

Keith Rome (Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 )

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It's a good hack. Problem is - it's a hack.
What if developers need both WPF XAML support in the XAML designer and XML Silverlight support in VS2008?
I don't like hacks just for that reason - Just working doesn't cut it.

It's a nice idea for a VS2008 addin - a "third option" (between XAML or XML editor) that will choose between those editors based on the type of project the XAML file is in or it's contents.

Justin-Josef Angel [MVP] (Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 )

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I expect that Silverlight 1.0 will be supported in VS 2008 but this hack is to allow it until the RTM is available. The third option I think is handled by the editor (where you can have a split view or either of the views (XAML or the designer) maximized). If they simply supported Silverlight in Cider (the editor) then we'd be all set.

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 )

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I did what you mentioned. And also I put the silverlight.xsd into the /xml/schemas/ dir. But I still did not see any intellisense in a xaml file. Any idea what went wrong?

hui li (Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 )

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I am seeing the intellisense problem in VS 2008 too. I'll blog when I hear fo a solution.

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 )


 



 
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