Intellisense in .skin files in ASP.NET 4

Question

Is there a good way to apply intellisense in .skin files in ASP.NET 4? like a microsoft visual studio tool for example? I installed an intellisense schema for .skin files to my visual studio 2008 long time ago but it had some bugs so i had to remove it. any improvements in visual studio 2010?

Darkish

Answer 1

Try this: Tools -> Options -> Text editor -> File extensions. Now type skin in the extension textbox and select User Control Editor from the dropdownlist. Click Add.

Close and reopen your .skin files and - kablam! - you now have intellisense. Be aware that it's going to complain about .skin files not having their own build provider defined in the web.config. Still better than nothing, though.

Cominform

that didn't work for me :S is it a solution for the ASP.Net 4? or previous versions? – Darkish

It's a website targeting .NET 4.0. It doesn't matter, however, what kind of project the .skin file is part of. I could create one with notepad, open in Visual Studio and still have the Intellisense. It's definitely working for me in VS 2010 Professional. Check this picture. img69.imageshack.us/img69/571/skinintellisense.jpg – Cominform

That's cool... now I need to find a project where I would actually use skins... which are... ehm... so far... N O N E... :P – Kantos

thanks a bunch.. this is also working for visual studio 2012 Express for Web. – Sampler

Answer 2

<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" > <buildProviders> <add extension=".skin" type="System.Web.Compilation.PageBuildProvider"/> </buildProviders> </compilation>

If you add above code in web.config file you won't get that compile time warning.

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