Visual D: Please improve Visual Studio support

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 10/03/2020 09:32, Joe Wong wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 October 2019 at 08:48:21 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
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>> On 03/10/2019 09:47, WINMMAPI wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 3 October 2019 at 05:50:37 UTC, WINMMAPI wrote:
>>>> 1. Please add a object brower on the top like VC++ and VC# does
>>>> Visual C++: https://sm.ms/image/njkaFhc2etBQR7G
>>>> Visual D: https://sm.ms/image/KmenxadgbPO8zNJ
>>
>> Indeed, that would be nice.
>>
>>>> 3. Show parameter info cannot show or switch between overloads
>>>> Visual C++: https://sm.ms/image/7elsARISPJxpjNn
>>>> Visual D: https://sm.ms/image/dylv14GneVsAMj7
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>> This is supposed to work, but seems to get lost in the conflict of the
>> JSON browse information and the semantic engine. With the latter
>> active, the function signatures are shown when typing the opening
>> paranthesis, but is replaced by the tooltip soon after.
> 
> Any progress on it? A navigation bar is quite important especially when
> reading long source files with thousands of lines.

I've made some experiments with the navigation bar and it seems
feasible. It won't be in the coming release, though, and the necessary
changes in the semantic engine will probably only be made to the dmd
based engine.