Doing mobile development in C# and Xamarin, which requires VS 2019.

What are "symbol outlines"?

> Broadcom provide the plugins using LSP (language server protocol) that 
> provides the context assist etc. It would be useless without it.

Why would I care about the underlying methodology as opposed to caring about 
the functionality?

Charles


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of David Crayford
Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 7:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mainframe Language Support for VS Code (Was RE: z/OS 2.5 install 
with z/OSMF)

On 1/12/21 11:00 pm, Charles Mills wrote:
> David, thanks, nice stuff.
>
> I downloaded an installed the Z plugin for VS. Took about 3 minutes start to 
> finish. (It helped that I already had VS Code -- which is free, by the way.) 
> I would rather it was for VS 2019, which I use a lot, but whatever. The 
> auto-complete and syntax-highlighting are nice. I've been using Notepad++, 
> which does the same thing, but this looks a little slicker. Not sure which I 
> will use going forward.

For C/C++ it uses intellitense which should be equivilent

> Not sure what the benefit of the Broadcom plug-in is over the IBM plug-in. 
> Looks like it suggests Rexx keywords in all upper case, which is not my 
> coding style. What are "symbol outlines"?

Broadcom provide the plugins using LSP (language server protocol) that 
provides the context assist etc. It would be useless without it.

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