Killing Intellesense

[Flac]

Hey, im using "microsoft visual studio.net" Intellesense is driving me insane... Anyone know how to turn it off? be your best friend if you do... Its ruining my code.

Please. save me...

---Flac

[Pirate]

To turn IntelliSense options off by default

1-On the Tools menu, click Options.
2-Select the Text Editor folder.
3-Select the folder for the language you want to customize IntelliSense.
4-Select a property page for the language and clear check boxes for the options that you do not want.

[Flac]

Thanks a bunch, i appriciate it

[Andy]

ôô Someone made a friend ôô

[hellswraith]

Wow, I have never heard someone say they didn't like intellesense.

To each his own, but I couldn't live without it.

[wossname]

each to his own indeed...

VB programmers are often indifferent to it, although it was improved infinitely from VB6, I love it. C# coders (like me) love it because it is too cool for school. (I, personally, am Fonzy cool)

C++ coders regularly curse it into the dirt for being an abomination, the likes of which have not been seen since Keith Chegwin.

In VS.net intellisense is a massively variable entity. I would like to know what J# (ptooie!) coders think of it.

[carlblanchard]

umm this is a very interesting post Flac your a new member to this forum are you a new member to the .net generation ????

If so you should use Intellisense as it will save you a **** load of time, other than posting questions on here

Can i ask what dont you like about it ???

[Flac]

at the time of this request i was in the middle of a school project(Taking VB in school on top of at home study) project was asking me to do something, and the intellesense kept defaulting to something else other then what i wanted. Under normal circomstances intellesense isnt that bad, i really dont use it though unless i dont know the code. I prefer typing things in then choosing from a list, i get a flow going and it annoyed me that i kept having to go back and change what intellesense changed my work to.

So in order to save me a hassel while work i decided to turn it off for that project....

So ya, if that makes sense to you thats my reasoning.

---Flac

[Andy]

well, you don't HAVE to choose from the list. You can keep on typing and it will not choose FOR you. The only time the feature types ANYTHING for you is if you press tab(that keeps you on the same line) or if you press ENTER (that fills out the code and puts you on another line).

You said it was putting in defaults? I don't quite understand how it's doing that unless you press the TAB key or the ENTER key.

Even if you don't choose to use the list, it is a GREAT reminder of what members are available to you for a given class. I couldn't live without it cause I would get get stuck using the same members over and over and probably forget about some really cool functions or properties.

There IS one thing that is annoying however....sometimes when you are about to select a member, the description and constructors seem to cover up your workspace a little too much. That's annoying to me cause I can't see what I'm doing

[Pirate]

And another advantage of turning Intellesense off is , it doesn't set you MS IDE slave . Then you can choose and happily work on any other editor or IDE that doesn't provide Intellesense . This is my view point , but as the other said , I couldn't live without it ....

[Andy]

Here is something else I found that's inside the MSDN included with your vs.net install

ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/vsintro7/html/vchowIntelliSenseOnDemand.htm

not sure if the hyperlink I provided will work. if not, look up "modifying Intellisense Options" in the msdn.

[techgnome]

Originally posted by Pirate
And another advantage of turning Intellesense off is , it doesn't set you MS IDE slave . Then you can choose and happily work on any other editor or IDE that doesn't provide Intellesense . This is my view point , but as the other said , I couldn't live without it ....

That's the silliest thing I've heard in a long time (not stouid, just silly)... Intellisense doesn't mean you HAVE to use the VS IDE... you could do it in Notepad for all the compiler cares.... doesn't matter if it's turned on or off...

TG

[Hole-In-One]

I think what Pirate was saying is that without the intellisense in VS many people would be lost. If they tried using another IDE without it, they would have a tough time.

[Flac]

Wow... you people really know how to turn a simple question into a huge debate dont you? i was hardly expecting to get one reply to my question, let alone 3 pages

[Pirate]

Originally posted by techgnome
That's the silliest thing I've heard in a long time (not stouid, just silly)... Intellisense doesn't mean you HAVE to use the VS IDE... you could do it in Notepad for all the compiler cares.... doesn't matter if it's turned on or off...
TG

lol , I know you can write your app in notepad or any text editor and then compile with the free compiler that comes with .NET SDK . It's hard when someone gets used to this Intellisense and suddenly work without .

Hole-In-One , thanks for clarification....