ColdFusion Builder Extension for Visual Studio Code Update 3

Learn more about the enhancements and bug fixes in ColdFusion Builder Extension for Visual Studio Code Update 3.

Overview

ColdFusion Builder extension for Visual Studio Code (Update 3) (release date: October 15, 2024) addresses fixes to the debugger and other areas.

The debugger includes fixes to watch expressions, variable management, and entering and exiting functions.

The update also addresses syntax highlighting for custom tags, enhances debugger error messages, introduces code assist for functions, and more.

Read on to learn more about the release.

Support for macOS sequoia

The Update 3 of the plugin is supported on macOS (Sequoia).

Bugs fixed in this update

• Sometimes, watch expressions and variables don't work as expected.
• The debugger does not display detailed error messages.
• The language parser behaves unexpectedly for custom HTML tags and does not highlight the syntax.
• Sometimes, creating an object of type .NET produces an incorrect error message, "Required attiribute 'domain' is missing", even though the attribute is optional.
  
• The Null attribute gets flagged as invalid syntax in the CFScript version of the cfprocparam tag.
• ALL actions, including clicking on the extension icon, produce the error message, "Error running command cfml.project.xxxxx: command 'cfml.project.xxxxx' not found."
  
• Chained method code assist does not work when invoking a function from a cfc.
• The issue with the missing settings.json file that was intermittently making the extension unusable has now been fixed.
  
• Code assist for the following:
  • abandonMessage
  • getKeyPairfromkeystore
  • getMongoBsonMinKey
  • getMongoBsonMaxKey