Questions tagged [languageservice]

Visual Studio Language Services are useful extensions that can bring a vast array of functionality for a new language into the Visual Studio IDE.

Questions on developing and debugging Visual Studio Language Services should have this tag.

A good place to start for creating your own Language Service is Ben Morrison's Code Project Article which provides a framework and instructions on getting started.

Microsoft's Deployment Article goes into more details in deploying Language Services.

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Custom ColorableItems in Visual Studio Extension

I am working on a LanguageService for Visual Studio and am having issues with custom colors in Visual Studio 2013. I recently moved from Visual Studio 2010 to 2013, and now whenever I set RequestStockColors to false, I lose all syntax…
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How do I create a UI like the insert snippet one in a Visual Studio editor window

From inside the text editor window, I can right click and select "Insert Snippet..." and I am presented with a search box that I can type and find a snippet. Once selected, the editor window is updated with text from the snippet. How does this…
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Issues Proffering Language Service

I have found two ways of proffering a language service on the internet. The first way involves using a IOleComponentManager and registering a timer to call my service during idle times. The second way involves casing my service as an…
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