JS member variables defined in constructor no longer included in intellisense

JS member variables defined in constructor no longer included in intellisense by J Balinski

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Type:	Bug
ID:	773442
Opened:	12/4/2012 11:17:12 AM
Access Restriction:	Public

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In Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 we used to be able to see object members defined in the constructor and commented using a "field comment" in the Intellisense results. Since the change to Visual Studio 2012 these members are no longer included.

According to msdn documentation for VS 2012 this should still be working:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh542725.aspx
In the Remarks section it states:
When you're documenting a constructor function, the <field> element must appear immediately before the field declaration. The name attribute must match the field name that's used in the source code. For object members, the name attribute can be omitted if the <field> element appears immediately before the object member declaration.

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Visual Studio 2012

Create a javascript file in a website in VS 2012 with the following content:

Type.registerNamespace("Test");
Test.SimpleObject = function()
{
    ///<summary>A very simple example</summary>
    ///<field name="_testString" type="String"/>
    ///<field name="_testBool" type="Boolean" />

    this._testString = null;
    this._testBool = false;

};
Test.SimpleObject.prototype =
{
    getStuff: function ()
    {
        ///<summary>Get stuff</summary>
        ///<returns type="Boolean"/>

        return false;
    }
};

Test.SimpleObject.registerClass("Test.SimpleObject");

Now within the getStuff method invoke intellisense on the 'this' object by typeing 'this.'

English

Windows 7 SP1

English

The member variables defined in the constructor are not included in the intellisense.

Member variables should be included in Intellisense as they were in VS 2008 and 2010.

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Posted by J Balinski on 1/21/2013 at 12:32 PM

Does anyone know when this fix will be available for download? Is there anyway to get a hotfix for this one now?

Posted by Microsoft on 12/4/2012 at 9:52 PM

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Posted by Microsoft on 12/4/2012 at 11:51 AM

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