vbandcs / xml-literals-completion-provider

You can build upon this VB.NET XML literals HTML5 completion provider to restore the missing xsd-based auto completion feature.

Setup:

• If you are a VB.NET dev, you can install this Html5 auto-completion provider VS.NET extension
• If you are a VB.NET contributors, you can add these two files to your Roslyn fork, in the folder Completion/CompletionProviders in the project Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.VisualBasic.Features

Usage: This completion provider will provide HTML5 auto completion in VB.NET XML Literals. It provide auto completion only inside vbxml tags:

Dim x = <vbxml>
   <!—auto completion for HTML 5 is available here -->
</vbxml>

I did this for two reasons:

1. not to mess with other xml literals that doesn't deal with html.
2. to support Vazor.

You can write <% and press Ctrl+space to get this block written for you:

    <%= (Function()
              Return < />
           End Function)( )%>

where you can use conditions or other vb code to return an html node.

And you can write <( and press Ctrl+space to get this block written for you:

     <%= (Iterator Function()
              For Each item In Collection
                   Yield <p><%= item %></p>
              Next
           End Function)( ) %>

where you can modify it to iterat through your collection and yiled an thml node based on each item in the collection, like filling a list with elements.

Note:

My aim from publishing this Roslyn-dependant source, is to allow contributors to build upon to provide a generic XML literals completion provider, based on the xsd that user supplies in the context as this missing feature was described in the docs