Visual Studio 2010 - Intellisense for jQuery 1.4.4

Question

I tried going through some of the other questions here at Stack, aswell as searching google but i mostly get hits in korean/japanese/chinese.

Anywho im running VS2010 its a MVC3 Project, im using a _layout masterpage using jQuery 1.4.4 along with a matching vsdoc for that version (downloaded today from MS so it should be the newest).

This is the content of the _layout page im using: http://pastebin.com/fB6FzaLS Not sure if its needed or not, but i added the code to enable the jQuery vsdoc (and the path is correct).

Whenever i Ctrl+Space the dot after the jQuery pointer i get this error in my output panel:

Javascript Intellisense Message: JSIntellisense:Internal/window(2:4) : Function expected

The intellisense suggestions it comes up with are extremely generic (constructor, valueof etc. about 7 ish in total)

In Extension manager i have disabled everything but the VisualStudio JScript enhancements (brackets, word highligther etc)

Any ideas what might be the problem here?

Answer 1

I'm wondering whether you're getting a conflict with the two instances of jQuery.

Two observations. Firstly, if all you're looking for is simple intellisense, VS2010 will do a very good job with the default jQuery reference. That said, I think your problem would be resolved by moving your JS into an external script file, and adding a reference to the VSDOC into that file instead.

Incidentally, jQuery 1.5.1 is out if you're looking for the most up to date version.

Rich