VS2010 IntelliSense inside text/x-jquery-tmpl script templates

Question

I\'ve been using jQuery templates which I absolutely love to use. The only drawback from an IDE standpoint is the lack of HTML IntelliSense inside the script tag. Is there

Answer 1

If you're using MVC you can make an extension method for the HtmlHelper like this:

public static class HtmlExtensions
{
     public static MvcHtmlString Template(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string id, Func content)
     {
         var sb = new StringBuilder();
         sb.AppendFormat("");

         return new MvcHtmlString(sb.ToString());
     }
}

Use like

@Html.Template("whatever", @
    template stuff here
)

You'll get full syntax coloring and intellisense that way. (though, VS might warn about invalid nesting of html elements depending on what your templates consist of)