Edit C# scripts with visual studio

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DS1508

37 discussion posts

Hello.
I want to edit the C# function scripts with my Visual Studio 2013. Could anybody tell me what I have to setup in a VS Project?

Jun 5, 2015 • #1

While you can write the scripts in Visual Studio, the Intellisense for our scripting functions won't work, and you won't be able to compile the scripts, so it's not really much use at the moment

Sorry!

Jun 8, 2015 • #2

Falthazar

9 discussion posts

Sorry I know this discussion is really old, but was wondering if anything has changed?

I'm trying to write a function now, but I'm still new to programming, and very new to VB/C# so I sort of need the intellisense for some of the basic functions.

Thanks!

Feb 2, 2017 • #3

Unfortunately, not, no. The Script Editor in DisplayFusion does have an Intellisense-esque auto-complete for the scripting functions though. If you type "BFS." it will popup a menu listing all of the namespaces and functions.

Feb 2, 2017 • #4

Falthazar

9 discussion posts

Yea! The BFS stuff I have down. It's just the rest I need the intellisense for. I think I will just sort of switch between the two when needed though. Thanks!

Feb 6, 2017 • #5

Falthazar

9 discussion posts

Sorry to bump this up again, but now that I've learned so much I can ask a better questions!
Is it possible for you to release the .dll file? That way we could add it as a reference in VS?

Still new so I'm not 100% sure on this, but wouldn't all the classes sit in DF separately anyway? Can you export them as a .dll? Or am I completely wrong about all that..?

Another option I recently found that may be easy?
Have you thought of adding intellisense in another way? Take a look at this notepad++ plug-in, maybe you could integrate it into the script editor?

The macros are just SO useful with work, but I still heavily rely on intellisense to know what I'm doing. Right now I'm switching between NPP and the macro editor to figure things out.

Thanks so much!

Mar 16, 2017 • #6

We'll check out Roslyn and see if it's something we can make use of in the DisplayFusion Script Editor. Unfortunately we can't provide the DF dll, sorry!

Mar 22, 2017 • #7

We missed the follow-up on this when we implemented it, but the Script Editor supports auto-complete for C# code now

Jan 13, 2023 • #8