Built-in property and method help should include fully qualified type name

[pcgeek86]

Environment data

dotnet --info output:

.NET Command Line Tools (1.0.0-preview2-1-003177)

Product Information:
 Version:            1.0.0-preview2-1-003177
 Commit SHA-1 hash:  a2df9c2576

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Mac OS X
 OS Version:  10.12
 OS Platform: Darwin
 RID:         osx.10.12-x64

VS Code version: 1.8.1
C# Extension version: 1.6.2

Expected behavior

When examining the built-in help documentation for C# properties and methods, the fully qualified type name of the member should be shown.

For example, in the following screenshot, only the RegionEndpoint type name is shown, but that type belongs to the Amazon namespace. So, the help docs should show: Amazon.RegionEndpoint.

It should also show the type's type as well: eg. struct, class, enum, etc.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkfornet/v3/apidocs/items/Amazon/TRegionEndpoint.html

Actual behavior

Only the type name is shown, omitting the namespace that it belongs to, and type (class, enum, struct, etc.) .

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[DustinCampbell]

Thanks for the note. We'll have much better support for the text in tooltips once the new Quick Info API is available from Roslyn (dotnet/roslyn#13623)

[rchande]

@DustinCampbell @akshita31 It looks like Dustin's PR dotnet/roslyn#20554 is merged. We can probably replace the existing TypeLookup code with.

[DustinCampbell]

@rchande, looking closer at the screenshot, does this look like a hover tooltip or the completion list?

[rchande]

@DustinCampbell You're right, that does look like a completion list. I think we still have a separate work item to go consume your quickinfo API. Thoughts?

[DustinCampbell]

Yeah, I was planning to work on supporting the new Quick Info API once the 2.9.0 Roslyn packages show up on NuGet (they're not there yet).

[rchande]

@DustinCampbell I know @akshita31 wanted to start doing more work on the omnisharp-roslyn side. Do you think this would be a good workitem for her to pick up?

[JoeRobich]

Closing as Hover and Completion documentation is much improved since this issue was opened. Please open a new issue if you run into problems with documentation.