Does C# intellisense read you mind?

re: Does C# intellisense read you mind?

Henry Boehlert — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:59:14 GMT

The Intellisense features of VS2005 definitely belong into the list of greatest things since sliced bread.

I'd estimate at least 50% productivity improvement over Everett for my day-to-day programming, also partly due to the improved documentation tooltips, as well as refactoring, even though the framework has increased significantly.

Especially the signature completion always amazes me.

I wish I had more time to look into the Orca's CTP to take Intellisense for a spin around anonymous types.

re: Does C# intellisense read you mind?

Miguel Jimenez — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:15:31 GMT

And one that really impressed me is that it knows the next property you are going to use. It seems to look the order of the properties in the object you are using, and if you use two of them consecutively the next time you write a dot, it will automatically go to the point (last property) you worked on.

This is amazing when changing 10 or 20 properties in an object

re: Does C# intellisense read you mind?

Carlos — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:15:33 GMT

The VS2005 C# intellisense is excellent. Cyrusn did an interesting blog about it while it was being designed and implemented:

http://blogs.msdn.com/cyrusn/

Sadly, he's stopped blogging.

re: Does C# intellisense read you mind?

Mat Steeples — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:15:45 GMT

Give SharpDevelop (www.sharpdevelop.net) a quick try. You can build it from source really easily if you don't want to install it.

The intellisense on that does some things that I wish that Visual Studio's did, such as the following:

when you type new, not only does it highlight the default object (as Mike mentioned) but it also filters out the list to only show objects that would make valid C# code.

eg Stream s = new ... and the intellisense only shows objects that are derived from the Stream class.

re: Does C# intellisense read you mind?

kevinowen — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:23:23 GMT

Chris,

I believe that all (or at least most) of the Code Snippets provided by default for VB in VS2005 are also available for C# from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718338.aspx

re: Does C# intellisense read you mind?

Chris Love — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:54:24 GMT

I am starting to pick up C# as a second language right now. I have been VB.NET since Beta 1. The biggest dissapointment with C# and Visual Studio 2005 for me is the lack of Intellisense functionality compared to VB. I think the big reason I went VB back in Beta 1 was the lack of intellisense in the original .NET IDE for C#. Just check out the list of Code Snippets, C# is so weak comapared to VB here.

Anyway, I don't mean to slam C#, just venting some frustration a little. :>

re: Does C# intellisense read you mind?

Damien Guard — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:55:28 GMT

One thing I don't like is how it doesn't understand aliased namespaces.

e.g.

using Gen = System.Collections.Generic;

...

Gen.List<T> list = new

At this point if you accept the IntelliSense you won't get Gen.List but rather System.Collections.Generic.List :(

[)amien

re: Does C# intellisense read you mind?

Jason Bock — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:26:36 GMT

With VS 2005 I felt like the IDE was psychic sometimes with how well Intellisense worked. It's not perfect, but it's a great time-saver (and it also works when you're defining conditional breakpoints!)

BTW (plug following) I just finished work on a dynamic proxies assembly:

http://www.jasonbock.net/JB/CodeDynamicProxies.aspx

The reason I'm mentioning it to you is that I added the feature where I generate an IL file on the fly so I can debug the generated code from Reflection.Emit. This might be of some interest to you :)