{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"How to enable Intellisense in plugin views","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"To get ","type":"text"},{"text":"Intellisense","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" in plugin views up and running, you have to switch your project configuration to ","type":"text"},{"text":"PluginDev","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" before editing any view file. This configuration ensures that ","type":"text"},{"text":"all","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" required dependencies for ","type":"text"},{"text":"Razor","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" dynamic compilation are copied into the correct folder (subdirectory ","type":"text"},{"text":"bin\\","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" of the plugin project).","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If you want to enable Intellisense for your ","type":"text"},{"text":"own","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" plugin project, you have to add two little code snippets to the ","type":"text"},{"text":"csproj","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" project file manually. Just ensure that the project is not loaded in Visual Studio and open the file in a text editor.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Add the following snippet to the bottom, right before the closing ","type":"text"},{"text":"Project","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" tag:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","attrs":{"language":"xml"},"content":[{"text":"","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":" ","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This specified build file only gets imported when the current configuration is ","type":"text"},{"text":"PluginDev","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":". It is then responsible for copying all references, regardless of the ","type":"text"},{"text":"CopyLocal","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" attribute value.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Another very useful snippet ensures that ","type":"text"},{"text":"CopyLocal","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" always defaults to ","type":"text"},{"text":"false","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":":","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","attrs":{"language":"xml"},"content":[{"text":"\n \n False\n \n \n False\n \n","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":" ","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Place this at the top, right after the opening ","type":"text"},{"text":"Project","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" tag.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Some background info: Visual Studio's default for ","type":"text"},{"text":"CopyLocal","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" is ","type":"text"},{"text":"true","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":", which means that nearly all references are copied to the output directory. This can slow down the build process dramatically. Furthermore. the output directory for plugins is usually ","type":"text"},{"text":"{build}/Plugins/{ThePlugin}","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":". When the app starts, the dll files within this directory get shadow copied over to a shared bin directory, which already contains most of the referenced files (such as the very common ","type":"text"},{"text":"Autofac","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":"). To prevent this redundancy and disk space waste, you simply suppress this behavior by defaulting ","type":"text"},{"text":"CopyLocal","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"text":" to false.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Of course, you could also set this attribute manually in the properties window of Visual Studio, but with the next NuGet package update, your setting would be reset. Therefore, the better approach would be to keep references private by default and set CopyLocal to true ","type":"text"},{"text":"explicitly","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":", when the reference is really private (i.e. no other project in the solution refers to it).","type":"text"}]}],"version":1}