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Better intellisense for .NET?

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Area-IntelliSense Issue-Enhancement
Dominant language
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Description

Issue Type: Feature Request

It would be very helpful to show popup documentation for .NET objects and members while coding in PowerShell, similar to what is already present for cmdlets. Is it possible with this extension or some other extension? The code completion for .NET objects works great but it would be nice to show the doc comments in the drowdowns and tooltips too.

Extension version: 1.7.0
VS Code version: Code 1.24.0 (6a6e02cef0f2122ee1469765b704faf5d0e0d859, 2018-06-06T17:30:30.113Z)
OS version: Darwin x64 16.7.0

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Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by comparing the existing cmdlet documentation behavior with .NET object completion, then identify the extension components responsible for dropdowns and tooltips; done means .NET objects and members expose documentation while coding.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
powershell, typescript, vscode
Domain
developer-experience, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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