Omnisharp-vscode: Improvement: Auto-Complete switch statements containing enums

[spaggi]

Hi,

this is not an issue but an improvement suggestion.
In Visual Studio, I always heavily relied on switch statement autocompletion with enums. As far as I understood, this cannot be done with snippets currently.

Example:

enum teams {
red,
blue
}

teams team;

//I type
switch (team) -> Press Tab

Shoudl autocomplete to

switch (team) {
     case teams.red:
        break;
     case team.blue:
        break;

Thank you very much!

[DustinCampbell]

Thanks for the request. Yes, this is very difficult to do with VS Code's snippets today.

[aldass]

agreed! I'm a longtime Visual Studio w/ReSharper user in the process of converting to VSCode and really, _really_, _really_ miss this feature in VSCode.

[JDeuce]

any chance you can elaborate on what the challenges are in case someone else wants to contribute?

[Shizola]

I too really, really miss this feature :(

[danoli3]

Absolutely please add this

[TheRealPiotrP]

@DustinCampbell will this issue be addressed by the upcoming Completion Service PR?

[DustinCampbell]

@TheRealPiotrP: No. This is a code snippets feature.

[PaulWilhelmsen]

Will it be added? I really miss this feature

[MatthewS2077]

Please add this, but if it can't be done as a snippet can it be done some other way, like generate the statement in the clipboard so I can manually paste...

[tarwich]

This is a great idea. However, I wouldn't recommend this as a snippet, but rather as a code action. A code action is the little lightbulb that pops up, or the menu you get when you press Ctrl + ..

I rarely need to be able to tab-complete an enum. I don't need that kind of speed. But typing out an enum, and pressing Ctrl + . and then selecting "Populate enum variants" or something would be quite sufficient. Not to mention it would work on a switch statement that's already partially filled out -- for example, if a new option has been added to an enum.

[rchande]

This does work in Visual Studio...

[Morgan-6Freedom]

I really like this too in VSCode

[JoeRobich]

You can invoke this from the fixes menu when your cursor is on the switch keyword

after

[JDeuce]

If that is implemented now then this issue is probably closable. There was nothing like that before.

[yogster]

Which version of omnisharp-vscode has this been implemented in? I'm using 1.21.9 and can't seem to make it work.

[JoeRobich]

@yogster I have "OmniSharp: Enable Roslyn Analyzers" enabled but not sure if that is necessary.

[yogster]

@JoeRobich That did the trick! Thanks for the tip.