Today I have released a new version of the HqlAddin project, the version is 1.0.0.4550 – Alpha 2 (a.k.a. Green Popotito).

Green Popotito comes with a new amazing feature, intellisense for properties and entities. This is a great work that comes from Felice Pollano’s NhWorkbench, so kudos for him.

Before we continue, let me show you a short screencast of the tool; follow this link.

How does this work?

You have to export (with MEF) your configuration in any assembly, hql addin will look the output path of the startup project and if it find an export will import the information to give you intellisense. Just write an export on any project, the build path can be anywhere. Follows the instructions here.

Any configuration of any version of NHibernate is ok. In order to update your intellisense (e.g. when you change your mappings) you will have to rebuild the solution ctrl + shift + b.

How to use the hql files?

You can read the full guide here.

Where do I get this?

You can download from the main website or simply from the Visual Studio Online Gallery of your Extension Manager. Read more here.

Provide feedback is mandatory

Please get involved with the project, provide some feedback, thoughts, issues or anything!