VS2022 Intellisense does not work with TinyCLR extension

TinyCLR OS
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Hi,

I have installed the latest VS2022 and the latest TinyCLR extension. If I create a TinyCLR application, instellisense will not work. It does not show any information for neither .NET nor TinyCLR types. If I create a Windows Forms Application intellisense works as expected.

I have tried to repair and update VS2022 and the extension, but the result is the same.

Have you seen this before?

/Geir

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Did you enable the .NET extension when installing VS?

Skip TinyCLR for a second and try to build a standard .NET windows app to make sure VS/.NET are installed properly.

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Yes, I can create a normal .NET application. This is what it looks like when I hover the mouse over “Sleep” in the .NET application:

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This is what it looks like if I do the same in the TinyCLR application:

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There is no information about the method. It is like if there was no xml documentation file with the dll.

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Exit VS and try deleting your bin, obj, and (most importantly) .vs/ directory. The reason is that VS caches a copy of mscorlib in .vs/ and if the signature doesn’t match the TinyCLR one that you are building against (and it won’t) then you won’t get Intellisense. Not a sure fix, but one thing to double check.

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Thanks for your suggestion, but the behaviour is still the same.

I can see the documentation from my own classes, but not from the GHI classes.

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I have checked the NuGet “packages” folder in my solution, and there are no xml files with the GHI dll’s. This explains why I get no documentation in Intellisense.

I tried to download another TinyClr NuGet package from Bytewizer. The xml files were included with that package, so Intellisense worked as expected.

Do you know why I don’t get the xml files when I install the NuGet packages? I guess you create xml documentation for your TinyClr dlls?

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I also am sorely disappointed that there’s no XML documentation for the GHI classes. I have been looking around everywhere for any working sample code on the WiFi module to no avail, so started walking the classes in the namespaces - and of course! No XML!

This is just basic developer 101 - without class / method descriptions, a number of the classes are mysteryware.

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I can’t agree more! The source code to the C# part of TinyCLR can be found on GitHub here. I have found that some of the code is actually documented, but they have not enabled the generation of XML documentation, so it does not show up in VS. A work-around is to download the repo, enable XML and recompile it. Then reference these dlls.

I have filed an Issue for this at their GitHub repo, I hope that they will include it in the next release.

If you are using a GHI board, you can find the wifi tutorial here.

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