w/ commercial extensions MonoDevelop cross platform IDE (linux/mac/win/...) Unity, PSMobile uses MD the making of Xamarin Studio (modernizing the UI): http://blog.xamarin.com/the-making-of-xamarin-studio/
to process incomplete sources provide basic source structure (AST) to editor "where is Type T in namespace N?" in-memory source parsing type/member selector
a reference (library). Complete type definition list can be built. Semantic analysis of sources is doable now. e.g. collect all members including base types.
definition" find references (usage, inheritance, overrides...) get code completion on ".", "::" or "->" opportunity for many advanced features too Mono.CSharp.dll contains C# implementation of it.
get type definition and their locations, find references and more advanced features Another aspect of LS / CaaS Historically all those features were tied to the IDE But they should be usable in any IDEs Separation of text editor and language toolkit
from editor mostly out-of-process model: launch host server NRefactory limits the scope to .NET creating LS / CaaS - difficult! API should be simple, to not break compatibility stringly-typed API FTW!
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