Better intellisense suggestions in VS Code

[NeverHere]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I do not have a lot of previous experience with ARM templates, I am starting my declarative journey with Bicep. With that out of the way, I find myself reviewing examples of ARM Templates or the resources on docs.microsoft.com to re-write what I want in Bicep. I also decompile a lot of existing ARM templates into Bicep.

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to have some sort of description in VS Code when creating a new resource that tells me parameters are available for use for that resource instead of parameters that are just required, most items only require a name, location, and resource group to deploy but many other parameters are needed to actually deploy the resource.

[alex-frankel]

Are you using the Bicep VS Code extension? That uses the resource API specifications to determine which properties are available and required and it will show these in intellisense. For example, you can see things like this:

We also have an outstanding issue (#804) to "scaffold" resources based on this info, so you don't have to type out each property individually.

[NeverHere]

Here is my example, you can see the actual bicep file on the left and the example on the right. Is this an issue where the options are just not available in intellisense yet?

This is helpful but I would agree that #804 is likely to be more helpful in the future.

[majastrz]

All the properties in IntelliSense come from swaggers. I think these are the most likely culprits:

• These properties aren't declared in the swagger
• Our swagger processing logic has a bug that causes these properties to be excluded
• IntelliSense is not handling the type information correctly

We will investigate what is happening with this resource type.