[2005] Turn on Intellisense?

[dogboydelta]

I was given a project and Intellisense seems to be turned off - it wont
warn me of errors as I type (such as an undeclared variable, etc).

How do I turn it back on?

[kleinma]

intellisense is the autocomplete window that comes up as you type things. It sounds like the issue you are having (warnings about variables not being declared, etc..) are related to the background compiler of the IDE.

It could even be something as simple as for some reason, option explicit is turned off, which wouldn't require you to declare variables before using them, however if its anything beyond that which you are not getting, like other syntax errors, then it is probably the background compiler.

What I would do, is go to the tools menu in Visual Studio, and select "Import and export settings"

I would then export my current settings (as a backup). Then I would select the other option in that dialog to reset all my settings to default and see if the problem goes away. That will tell you if it was a setting or not in Visual Studio.