Tuesday 28 July 2009

Enable XSLT IntelliSense within Visual Studio

Wouldn't it be nice to have Visual Studio list the available template names when typing out a call-template statement in XSLT? Wouldn't it also be nice to have it list available parameter names when typing out a with-param statement?

To enable these autocompletions and more, you need to back up your registry and then run regedit. Within regedit, create a string value called "XsltIntellisense" under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\XmlEditor" key, giving it the value "True". That's it!

Ultimately, I'd like to see full IntelliSense for XSLT in Visual Studio, but this is a good start.

2 comments:

VST said...

Does this work for VS 2010? Just tried and no effect

Neil said...

I believe VS 2010 has some XSLT built in now, but I haven't got around to looking at configuring it yet.