Configurable location of xml annotations

You can put external annotations side-by-side with dll.

Sincerely,
Ilya Ryzhenkov

JetBrains, Inc
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"Develop with pleasure!"


IR> Hi, code annotations are nice, but there's a limitation with third
IR> party libraries since the only way to annotate them is to use xml
IR> and place it in the R# installation directory. It would be useful if
IR> R# was able to pick them up from a project or output folder to make
IR> it self-contained. Is this something already achievable in any ways?
IR>
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IR> Original message URL:
IR> http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/message/5260369#5260369

I cannot get it to work. For example, I annotated Jayrock and when I put the xml in the ExternalAnnotations folder it works fine, while placing it in either root directory, bin directory or next to where I reference Jayrock.dll from in my web app referencing Jayrock.dll it does not have any effect.

During the external annotations lookup, the co-location with the DLL is the top priority.
Please note that ReSharper scans them on startup, so after moving the file VS should be re-started

So, to make it clear, if I have an ASP.NET web application using Jayrock.dll from the bin directory, where should my Jayrock.xml file containing annotations go?

In the bin directory too

Ok, tried it, it doesn't work. If I copy the same Jayrock.xml file in the ExternalAnnotations folder in the R# installation directory and restart VS then it works.

Thank you for the feedback.
I'll check this issue.

http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/RSRP-177643

Thanks, for any additional details and tentatives to try feel free to ask, I'll be watching the issue.

I've checked the code. The co-located external annotations file has special naming convention - it should end with ".ExternalAnnotations.xml"

So if your assembly is a.dll, then ext.ann. file should be a.ExternalAnnotations.xml (to not to clash with xml-doc)

Sorry for inconvinience