How to anaylize C# code at runtime and generate intellisense?

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I'm creating a scripting IDE for my company and i'm using FastColoredTextBox control as a syntax editor

Basically, the script will be written in VB.NET or C#.

What i need is to analyze the script code as the user types and generate intellisense items based on current context just like what visual studio does.

Is there any idea how to implement this in a fast responsive way ?

Posted 29-Nov-15 23:56pm

Mohammed Elmahdy

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Mehdi Gholam 30-Nov-15 7:39am

Try Sharpdelevop.

Mohammed Elmahdy 30-Nov-15 8:31am

Thanks Mehdi for your quick response.
Unfortunately, SD won't work for me, we need a very light-weight IDE, something like NP++
I tried to implement it using Roslyn based on RoslynPad but CompletionService roslyn class was changed from public to internal so i can't apply it this way either.

F-ES Sitecore 30-Nov-15 8:46am

You can use Reflection to find out what properties\methods\etc are available on a class. What you're attempting to do isn't trivial though, so don't expect a few lines of code that will implement this.

Mohammed Elmahdy 30-Nov-15 8:56am

Sorry i didn't make it clear enough, my problem is not how to get MemberInfo list using reflection, my real problem is how to detect the current context to determine exactly which members will be displayed so i need to know if the user typed "." inside a commented block or right after a variable name or in a using statement etc...
I know it's not an easy task but i hope anyone here gone for it before or has some piece of info to share.

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