JADE Environment Development Ideas

If you modify a method or property in a versioned schema, they get a little green arrow added to the icon to show that they've been modified, but if you add a method or property they don't. This makes it hard to see all the changes to a class in t...

Currently array types in .NET components are imported as JadeDotNetType and you have to use hacky things like jadeDotNetMethod to get array items. It would be nice if arrays were supported by the .NET import feature. I submitted this as an NFS in ...

Currently if you have parameters or attributes which can only contain one of a range of values, you have to write code to ensure that the value you're setting is valid - the compiler doesn't ensure the consistency of this data. For example if a me...

A nice feature of Visual Studio is that, when debugging, you can step through code, then drag the execution position back to re-run the code you just stepped through. This is a fantastic feature and if Jade could support it that would be fantastic...

Although the JADE IDE does allow a developer to bind code to an accelerator key, the number of bindings is limited and bound accelerator keys are not easily discoverable. Support for the creation of static and expansion code snippets which could b...

Null exceptions must be up there with the most common runtime issue. Often these occur when dealing with older persistent data that didn?t have the same validation enforced on it, or object references yet to be populated. There are various strateg...

When compiling a method we use F8 and if there are any compile errors they are identified. What would be beneficial (especially for anyone learning Jade) would be a "smarter" compile which would warn on potential problems in the code. Here are som...

Just a couple of issues with jade 2016 relating to the clipboard, method compiling and icon updates