[RESOLVED] intellisense via source view VS2005/Asp.Net 2

[gjon]

Below is an excerpt from a book I am reading. Prior to this paragraph it discusses how to use the properties window in design view. Then it tries to explain how to use properties via source view.

The problem is I can't figure out where this insertion bar is. I press the space bar and I can't get properties to appear via intellisense. Can someone please point this out?

You can also set property values by typing into the Source View. Locate the insertion bar within a tag

and press the space bar to display an IntelliSense list of all the properties that can be inserted at the location

of the insertion bar. Type the first letter or two and then type an equals sign. IntelliSense displays all

of the legal values (if the list is finite), and again type the first letter or two of the value you desire. Finish

by typing a space.

[gjon]

Just had to be within a tag of code to hit space bar and make the intellisense pop up in source view.

[mendhak]

Interesting. I've never seen an insertion bar, perhaps he is using the retarded Mac user version of Visual Studio? Do you think he means the / or the >? He might be trying to tell you to add your attribute towards the end of the tag.

<asp:Button id="Button1" runat="Server" />

[gjon]

I believe that's about what he meant too. Just adding an attribute anywhere in a tag but outside a property of the tag. As soon as I hit space bar the intellisense drop-down pops up. I only thought these occurred in the aspx.cs file but I see now that it occurs within source view of the aspx file as well.

Thanks.