SLang Visual Studio Extension

Feature Support Documentation

Add support for SLang Programming Language into Visual Studio IDE. Target version is Visual Studio 2019.

Up-to-date development progress can be tracked via "Essential Features" github project

Implemented Features:

• Code Highlight (Tagger)
  • Lexer-based
• Symbol Resolver
  • Resolver Tagger
• Project management
  • Create project file (*.slangproj)
  • Templates (Empty project, Basic Command Line app)
  • Build with compiler (output paths, debug/release modes)
  • Settings (compiler path, startup/other file)
• IntelliSense (define api, write stubs)
  • Quick Info (file context)
  • Error indication (interface only)
  • List Members (plain file context)
• Code Navigation
  • Go to definition (file context)
• Code folding (Outlining) + (needs to be moved to AST interface)
• .editorconfig
  • explicit integration into project
• Comment/uncomment commands
• Brace matching in expressions
• Occurance matching (Plain file context)
• Smart/Auto Indent
• Indent Guides

Future Consideration Features:

• Analysis tools (maybe slang metrics?)
• Document formatting (need separate formatter of some customizable tool)
• IntelliCode (requires deep learning)
• Debugger
  • Debug mode launch
  • breakpoints
  • variable watches
• Navigation Bars (function/etc navigation dropdown on top of editor)
• Solution Explorer Search
• Snippets
• Occurance Matching (semantic api)
• Intellisense features
  • Parameter Info / Signature Help (semantic api)
  • Complete Word (semantic api)
  • Lightbulb suggestions (semantic api)
  • Error indication (senabtic api)
  • List Members (semantic api)
• Code Navigation
  • Peek definition (create wpf window view?)(semantic api)
  • Find all references (semantic api)

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Custom Coloring rules

Symbol	Default Color	In Hex
Undefined symbol	Dark gray
Unit definition	Light Teal	#4ec9b0
Unit member routine definition	Light Yellow	#dcdcaa