I believe you need this https://gist.github.com/warrenbuckley/10599383

Jup, sure looks like it. Kudos to Warren.

But how can I tell VS that a package.manifest file is actually a json file?

Found it, in VS just search for file extensions

Awesome, going to setup that up!

Thanks

Hi Jeavon,

This may be a slightly stupid question, but how do you plug that gist into Visual Studio so that the Intellisense actually works?

Cheers,

Jason

Hi Jason,

You add a $schema at the top of the file. e.g.

{
  "$schema" :  "http://schemastore.org/schemas/json/package.manifest.json",
  "propertyEditors": [

Also please note the update to the schema url in the above snippet.

Jeavon

This isn't adding Intellisense for me.

Did the elements change colour or is all the content all black in VS?

I tried it also.

I get coloring of the elements, but no intellisense.

And i get a green line under each of the first chars, telling me 'Missing a membername before the colon (':') in the "(name) : (value)" object member'

And this part:

    javascript: [

        '~/App_Plugins/TextboxCounter/TextboxCounter.controller.js'

    ]

I get an 'unexpected character sequence in array element value' from the link to the controller.js file.

My manifest works fine. 

Hello all
Thanks Jeavon for plugging my work on this.

I got Mads Kristensen to pick up my starting point & finish it off, so I recommend you set this URL for the schema: http://json.schemastore.org/package.manifest

Thanks,
Warren

@soren just change this line

javascript: [
        '~/App_Plugins/TextboxCounter/TextboxCounter.controller.js'
    ]

to this

"javascript": [
        "~/App_Plugins/TextboxCounter/TextboxCounter.controller.js"
    ]

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