VS 2005 intellisense for complex properties in the XML/HTML designer

[Adam Tibi]

Hi,

I am using a web custom control with Visual Studio 2005 and I have a
property called :

[Category("Controls")]
[DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)]
[NotifyParentProperty(true)]
[PersistenceMode(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty)]
public DropDownList DropDown {
get {
EnsureChildControls();
return _dropDown;
}
}

The problem is in the intellisense of the XML/HTML (Source) designer . The
intellisense is showing the DropDown tag <DropDown> </DropDown> but it
doesn't show any thing when I try to explore the childrens of this tag (by
writing < between the <DropDown> and </DropDown>) where I expect to have
<asp:ListItem> showing up! However, if I have <asp:ListItem> written inside,
it works as expected at runtime.

How can I tell the Intellisense to show the children or the DropDown tag? Am
I missing any attribute to do so?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Adam Tibi
Your Insurance Group

 

[Teemu Keiski]

Hi,

your custom control would need to be in the same namespace with asp:
controls so that Intellisense would work as expected.

More information:
http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joteke/archive/2006/01/27/14886.aspx

 

[Adam Tibi]

Hi Teemu,

Thank you for replying, I've been posting this from long but I didn't get
any reply till now.

So, to solve this, I can create an empty class within my namespace and this
class should inherit DropDownList (it is just a way to alias the namespace).

That seems to be the solution, thank you very much
Best regards,
Adam Tibi

Hi,

your custom control would need to be in the same namespace with asp:
controls so that Intellisense would work as expected.

More information:
http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joteke/archive/2006/01/27/14886.aspx

--
Teemu Keiski
ASP.NET MVP, AspInsider
Finland, EU
http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke

Hi,

I am using a web custom control with Visual Studio 2005 and I have a
property called :

[Category("Controls")]
[DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)]
[NotifyParentProperty(true)]
[PersistenceMode(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty)]
public DropDownList DropDown {
get {
EnsureChildControls();
return _dropDown;
}
}

The problem is in the intellisense of the XML/HTML (Source) designer .
The
intellisense is showing the DropDown tag <DropDown> </DropDown> but it
doesn't show any thing when I try to explore the childrens of this tag
(by
writing < between the <DropDown> and </DropDown>) where I expect to have
<asp:ListItem> showing up! However, if I have <asp:ListItem> written
inside,
it works as expected at runtime.

How can I tell the Intellisense to show the children or the DropDown tag?
Am
I missing any attribute to do so?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Adam Tibi
Your Insurance Group