For reasons I'd rather not debate, I wanted to create an Intellisense XML file from the XML output of Doxygen for a NuGet package. After studying all I could find about the format of the file, I created an XML Stylesheet (XSLT) to create the Intellisense file. Unfortunately, Visual Studio would not load the file at all. There is no way to diagnose the problem since there does not seem to be any logging or diagnostic capability regarding the loading of the Intellisense database and no help to be found on the Internet.
Using Visual Studio 2019 16.11 and .NET CLI:
- Build library.
- Run Doxygen to generate XML.
- Run msxsl to translate the Doxygen XML to Intellisense XML.
- Copy Intellisense XML file to library files folder.
- Create the NuGet package (pack).
- Confirm package includes XML file in
libfolder. - Add package to local NuGet registry.
- Install package from local registry to test project.
No joy. Intellisense does not work.
This has become an intellectually exercise, at this point. While it would be nice to have, I have to move on for now. But if anyone has any idea what step I could be missing or any information about how delicate the process is for loading the intellisense database, I welcome any suggestions.