asp.net intellisense inside script tag <% - asp.net

in a web form I'm trying to get intellisense within a script tag BUT within some inline .net code
Running vstudio 2008 / c# / .net 3.5 / vista
<%# Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="WebUserControl1.ascx.cs"
Inherits="controls.WebUserControl1" %>
<%# Register src="utils/popup.ascx" tagname="popup" tagprefix="uc1" %>
<div>
<%=popup1.ClientID;%>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var popId = <%="'" + popup1.ClientID%>';//no inetllisense here
//this wont work either
<%
string popid = popup1.ClientID;
//no intellisense here either - thinks it is javascript
%>
</script>
<uc1:popup ID="popup1" runat="server" />
</div>
I get intellisense in the first angle bracket, but within the script tag intellisense is picking up javascript intellisense - ie not recognising that I am actually doing some inline code.
Is there a syntax I can use to get this??

I don't know that this will fix it for you, but one part of the problem is that you're inside a javascript string literal. See if doing it this way helps:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var popId = <%="'" + adzPopup1.ClientID%>';
</script>

For 2003 it seems this was a recognised issue
Not sure about 2008... but someone here has the same issue with MVC inline code, and the solution was to include
<%# Import Namespace="System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper" %>
in the .aspx page. Unfortunately I'm not sure what the equivalent for what you need would be.
edit: just read on MSDN - When IntelliSense Is Unavailable, that IntelliSense is unavailable when in a string literal - this could be your problem.

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