Problem with Visual Studio Intellisense only in strategies

[qwiksilver96]

Good afternoon. All of my strategies are exhibiting a strange behavior when I dev in VS 2022. The following only occurs in strategies (all, including ones built in Strat Builder), however, my indicators are fine. The strategies compile without issue. Am I missing a reference? Could this be something else with my environment or configuration?

Thanks,
Frank

[qwiksilver96]

Another example.

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

Hello qwiksilver96,

Thank you for your post.

Although Visual Studio may be used as a text editor, it may not have intelliprompt available for everything unless you manually include the NinjaTrader.Vendor.cs file in the Visual Studio solution. There is a caveat, as it iwll be removed for every change that is made in the NinjaScript project and you would have to add it again. If you require the intelliprompt or do not want to see those errors in your scripts, you would need to work in the NinjaScript Editor directly which does constantly have access to the NinjaTrader.Vendor.cs file.

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance.

[qwiksilver96]

Hello qwiksilver96,

Thank you for your post.

Although Visual Studio may be used as a text editor, it may not have intelliprompt available for everything unless you manually include the NinjaTrader.Vendor.cs file in the Visual Studio solution. There is a caveat, as it iwll be removed for every change that is made in the NinjaScript project and you would have to add it again. If you require the intelliprompt or do not want to see those errors in your scripts, you would need to work in the NinjaScript Editor directly which does constantly have access to the NinjaTrader.Vendor.cs file.

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance.

How does one go about including that file in the solution? Is the attached image correct? Added the file to both the solution and the project as shown in the image. Is this documented somewhere?

[qwiksilver96]

Additionally, see the attached image for a screen grab I did from one of Ninjatrader's Youtube videos that clearly shows during a video about the 10 benefits of using visual studio with Ninjatrader that the presenter's strategy does not show ANY intellisense errors or issues. How is that so? If I recall correctly, I recently was able to devlop strategies with fully functioning intellisense / intelliprompt (whatever you call it) and had no errors. The referenced video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCPP5RC7fxU

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

Hello qwiksilver96,

Thank you for your reply.

Manually including the NinjaTrader.Vendor.cs file in the Visual Studio solution is not documented, as it is not a NinjaTrader-specific item and is more specific to Visual Studio itself. With that said, it has come to my attention that with the latest version of NinjaTrader, 8.1.2.0, when you edit in Visual Studio the language version is set to "Latest" and not specifically to C# 8, so that is another cause for intellisense errors within Visual Studio. One client found a workaround for this in the following thread, and it has also been reported to the development team:

https://forum.ninjatrader.com/forum/ninjatrader-8/platform-technical-support-aa/1275765-nt8-8-1-2-0-generates-projects-with-langversion-latest-headfaking-vs2022

Thank you for your time and patience.

[qwiksilver96]

Hello qwiksilver96,

Thank you for your reply.

Manually including the NinjaTrader.Vendor.cs file in the Visual Studio solution is not documented, as it is not a NinjaTrader-specific item and is more specific to Visual Studio itself. With that said, it has come to my attention that with the latest version of NinjaTrader, 8.1.2.0, when you edit in Visual Studio the language version is set to "Latest" and not specifically to C# 8, so that is another cause for intellisense errors within Visual Studio. One client found a workaround for this in the following thread, and it has also been reported to the development team:
https://forum.ninjatrader.com/forum/...dfaking-vs2022

Thank you for your time and patience.

The version number isn't the issue in my case. I created a new VM, installed VS and NT and am having no issue with the intellisense working correctly. There's something in my main machine's environment that has gotten fubared that is causing this issue.

In the new system, I noticed that ninjascriptbase is inherited for this line ( protected override void OnStateChange()
) while it is not inherited on my main machine with the issue.

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

The version number isn't the issue in my case. I created a new VM, installed VS and NT and am having no issue with the intellisense working correctly. There's something in my main machine's environment that has gotten fubared that is causing this issue.

In the new system, I noticed that ninjascriptbase is inherited for this line ( protected override void OnStateChange()
) while it is not inherited on my main machine with the issue.

What are the results after repairing your NinjaTrader installation on the main machine?

• Shut down NinjaTrader
• Go to your computer's Control Panel > Programs & Features (Note: search for 'Control Panel' to find it within the Windows Start Menu. This will be a different window than the Settings page)
• Left-click once on NinjaTrader > select 'Repair' above the list of available programs
• Restart the platform after it finishes repairing, and test for this behavior again.

I look forward to hearing the results.