Excel-DNA Intellisense character limit?

[Fredrik Lindroth]

Hello, 

First of all. Love the addins.

So I'm using the Excel-DNA Intellisense and there seem to be a character limit. You can see it it the picture attached. It cuts off at the end.

Is there a solution to this?

Regards Fredrik

[Govert van Drimmelen]

Hi Fredrik,

 

With the way I’m currently storing and returning the descriptions in the Excel-DNA add-in, we are using the truncated descriptions, and are thus restricted to the Excel string limitations for the function registration – e.g. 255 characters for the argument description.

 

We could store and return the untruncated strings from the add-ins, and then IntelliSense should show everything.

The code that keeps track of this is a bit fiddly to work on but there are should be no fundamental problems in doing this.

There is already an issue for this work on GitHub: https://github.com/Excel-DNA/ExcelDna/issues/85

 

At the moment the one workaround is to put your IntelliSense descriptions for such functions in a .IntelliSense.xml file as described here: https://github.com/Excel-DNA/IntelliSense/wiki/Usage-Instructions

The xml file descriptions should take precedence over those compiled into the add-in, and won’t have these length limitation.

 

-Govert

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