When will intellisense be restored in Ionide?

[adam-c-anderson]

The issue reported here is still in effect. It seems the solution is known, but it hasn't been implemented in the 9 months since it was reported. Will it be in the 5.21 release?

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[baronfel]

in the interim, you can #load the .fake/<build script name>/intellisense.fsx manually to get intellisense, the FAKE extension in Ionide just looked this up by convention (plus a couple other UX helpers).

[adam-c-anderson]

Thanks for the tip. I am already doing that, but still get intellisense errors everywhere.

[ImaginaryDevelopment]

I think, at least in part, because of this MiniScaffold, and other community projects have moved to using a build.fsproj and simply referencing and calling fake. @adam-c-anderson

[Luiz-Monad]

I had a similar problem when cleaning everything for a NetCore50 update. You need to at least do a first build before the intellisense can work.

mkdir tst
cd tst
dotnet new -i fake-template
dotnet new fake
code .

Other thing the template misses is ignoring the #r directive, its doesn't work with Ionide, but that's no problem as long as you do the following, it will work.

fake -v build --list

build.fsx

#if FAKE
#r "paket:
nuget Fake.DotNet.Cli
nuget Fake.IO.FileSystem
nuget Fake.Core.Target //"
#endif
#load ".fake/build.fsx/intellisense.fsx"
open Fake.Core
open Fake.DotNet
open Fake.IO
open Fake.IO.FileSystemOperators
open Fake.IO.Globbing.Operators
open Fake.Core.TargetOperators

//rest.....

This chicken and egg problem is kinda funny, fake needs paket, paket needs fake, ionide needs both, and the Fsharp language services, aka FCS, which is incompatible with the former tools need just the assembly list. Things are a bit better if you use dotnet tool, or chocolatey to set up those 2 tools. It is what it is, C# doesn't suffer that badly from it I guess, its bootstrapped already from dotnet with everything it needs.

Microsoft really should upstream both Fake and Paket as de-facto F# build environment.