Completing ASP.NET Collection Properties

I've recently been tweaking the ASP.NET completion, adding support for resolving valid children for a control. These can be properties, a property, or controls. More difficult was resolving the valid children for properties, but this is now done:

Screenshot of an ASP.NET file in MonoDevelop showing autocompletion on the children of a collection property.

Unfortunately, there aren't actually any designer or parser attributes for limiting the children of a property, so in order to resolve the children, I assume it's a collection, and look for an Add method with a single parameter derived from Control. If this exists, I use its parameter to filter the types in the control completion list. It's an ugly hack, but it works perfectly for tables and wizards. In the worst case, MonoDevelop falls back to showing all controls.

With this done, the ASP.NET completion is essentially feature-complete.

Comments

This is a brilliant hack!

Hey!

Congrats on this feature, I think it is a brilliant hack!

It will come in very handy, as ASP.NET on Linux always intimidates me when it comes to anything beyond the simplest controls.

Miguel.