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jQuery 1.3 Intellisense Support

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Jan 202009

jquery-vsdoc
Update:Â John Resig has uploaded the official vsdoc file for jQuery 1.3.1, the workaround posted below is obsolete. You can find the updated file

Â atÂ http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery.

After the release of jQuery 1.3 earlier this month, those of you who have made use of the extended Visual Studio 2008 support for jQuery will no doubt have discovered the new version is not compatable with the 1.2.6 vsdoc.js file.

James Hart, has come to our rescue with the creation of a 1.3 compatible vsdoc.js file however it should be noted the structure for this file is different from the structure Microsoft used in the 1.2.6 file. As such there may be compatibility issues such as problems when working with extensions, just something to keep in mind.

There has not been any comment from Microsoft on an updated vsdoc file with 1.3 support.

Get jQuery 1.3 intellisense support – http://www.infobasis.com/sandpit/jQuery-Intellisense/jQuery-vsdoc.js

VS.PHP Add-in problem (and how to resolve)

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Mar 232008

Even though I am using .NET as my primary platform I do still make use of PHP 5 and since I have come to like using Visual Studio so much, I use an add-in called VS.PHP from JCX Software.

Recently I tried out the newest version (2.4) which support Visual Studio 2008 and after the trial ran out I removed it however for whatever reason it interfered with my Visual Studio 2005 configuration and prevented the add-in from working at all.

The error I was receiving when trying to load a VS.PHP project was:

The application for project '<path to project>' is not installed.
 Make sure the application for the project type (.phpproj) is installed.

After about 40 minutes of head scratching and googling (as well as a re-install of VS.PHP) I encountered the following solution on the JCX Software Forums:

Run devenv /resetskippkgs

I did exactly that, I navigated a command prompt to:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE

And ran the command above.

I should explain that the reason I was receiving the error (well more why it wasn’t even loading VS.PHP) was because 2.4 conflicted with 2.3 and when I launched VS2005 again I got the VS error telling me an add-in failed to load and would I like to prevent it from loading on future launches of Visual Studio. I stupidly replied “Yes, please do”.

The command work, VS went back to normal and now I have VS refusing to store the window positions in upon application close in Vista. The two are unrelated but it doesn’t exactly help me any.

I have moved to XP for the time being until I have the time to fix the VS2005 install on Vista.

Bio

Andy is a software engineer based in Scotland who has over 8 years experience working in Web Development and .NET.

Andy is a passionate developer and is always looking for ways to hone his skills and improve at his craft. He believes that good programmers are also social programmers and as such is involved in the UK development community. At home he is currently the Chairman of Scottish Developers and further afield he has spoken at a number of events across the UK and Ireland.

In his downtime Andy is a computer gamer and keeps close tabs on the games industry. You may even catch him playing Warhammer 40k from time to time ;-)