Non-functional Autocompletion Behavior about glyphfriend HOT 1 CLOSED

After exploring the issue, it appears to be part of the Visual Studio VSIX packaging process and how it is handling these declarations on MEF components (which is what the autocompletion functionality is). I made several attempts to define the getter for the CompletionType property :

// None of these declarations were sufficient to define the getter for CompletionType
public string CompletionType { get; }
public string CompletionType => CompletionTypes.Values;
public string CompletionType { get { return CompletionTypes.Values; } }
public string CompletionType { get; } =  CompletionTypes.Values;

However, none of them were sufficient to resolve the issue. Eventually, I settled on using a base class to define the getter and inheriting from it, which somehow seemed to work, although I'm not entirely sure of the reason behind that at present :

abstract class BaseClassCompletionProvider : IHtmlCompletionListProvider
{
        public abstract string CompletionType { get; }
}

class GlyphClassCompletionListProvider : BaseClassCompletionProvider 
{
        public override string CompletionType { get { return CompletionTypes.Values; } }

        // Omitted for brevity
}

I've reached out to several members of the Visual Studio development team and opened a question on Stack Overflow to address it, but have yet to receive any explanation.

I'll be using the base-class approach to resolve the problem until then.

from glyphfriend.