jQuery IntelliSense documentation file available

Monday, October 27, 2008

IntelliSense documentation files for jQuery just got published on jquery.com. This enables great IntelliSense at design-time for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008. It goes without saying that this file should only be used at design-time and never at runtime. For the moment, in order to ensure that, you can include the file from an “if (false)” server code block. We’re also working on a much better solution.

Many, many thanks to John Resig, Scott Cate and Jeff King for making that possible.

1.2.6:
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.2.6-vsdoc.js
Latest release (currently just a copy of 1.2.6):
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest-vsdoc.js

UPDATE: Jeff King wrote a great post explaining how to use the IntelliSense file now and once Visual Studio has been patched (patch will sonn be released).
http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/10/28/rich-intellisense-for-jquery.aspx

5 Comments

@Dave: good point, Dave, but references I believe currently only work in JS files, not in pages. But from JS files, that is clearly the best strategy for now. Eventually, you'll be able to just reference the main jquery file.

Bertrand Le Roy - Monday, October 27, 2008 5:10:20 PM

@John: precisely. That's why I've been insisting in the post that this should never be used at runtime. We are going to enforce that in the future by allowing you to only reference the runtime and the IDE should be able to find the IntelliSense file automatically.

Bertrand Le Roy - Monday, October 27, 2008 11:19:38 PM

That's a great news.

chanva - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:59:50 AM

Some instructions on how to get it working would be nice. ;-)

Previous info is scattered around with varying techniques that never seemed to work.....

Guy - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:21:33 PM

Someone has bothered to do a full post...

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/10/28/rich-intellisense-for-jquery.aspx

Guy Harwood - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:21:03 AM

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