Knockout highlighting is not working for me in VS2013. Given that I have the "knockout highlight color" setting:
...my assumption is that it should be working.
However, no dice:
Any ideas?
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What are you trying to do? add a `click` event to a `div`? – Christian Phillips Nov 09 '13 at 09:48
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Nope. Just illustrate that highlighting isn't working. – Shaun Rowan Nov 09 '13 at 10:35
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I had the exact same issue. I am a total newbie to Visual Studio, and given that the Web Essentials listed knockoutJS intellisense out of the box I did not think one needed to do anything to 'turn it on'. Also, it seems support for Mustache templating and Angulars ng-bind syntax works out of the box so I was just as perplexed as you.
This is what I did:
I added an entry for a '_refereences.js' file as described in the answer for Intellisense doesn't work for JavaScript in Visual Studio 2012
I then created the file, and dragged the knockout.3.0.0.js file into the code area like descirbed on this blog
That gave me syntax highlight for Knockout data-binds, as well as Intellisense for Knockout.
Edit: Also check out this blogpost by Mads Christensen, the man behind Web Essentials. In the blog post he describes what _references.js is for, and how to use it.
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Thanks! _references.js did the trick! I did not need to do anything within VS settings - just add the _references.js file to the ~/Scripts/ folder and add the triple slash references to knockout. – Shaun Rowan Jan 14 '14 at 22:06
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