Semi-Transparent Intellisense in Orcas

Published 10 August 07 08:30 AM

I stumbled across this a while ago on ScottGu's blog and just wanted to try it out.  There's no real news other than to say that it works as advertised and is just one of those really nice details that may prove helpful in the long run.  The feature is simply this - when your Intellisense window pops up, but you wanted to see some code now hidden underneath it, simply hold down the Ctrl key, and the Intellisense window will become mostly transparent as in the following.

So the question for me is - will this be enough for me to give up using R# Intellisense and go back to VS??  Oh! So torn! 

by hdierking

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# BenScheirman said on August 10, 2007 4:06 PM:

No reason R# can't release their own transparent window...

What I'm really missing is why there isn't a ribbon UI in Visual Studio 2008...  It would be a great fit for that gigantic sea of toolbar buttons that we rarely click on (b/c the discoverability sucks).

Also, the word 2007 context menu that hovers near the mouse is great... select some text, click bold, without leaving the sentence area.

Applying these UI techniques to Orcas would be a hit IMO.

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About hdierking

I am currently the Editor-in-Chief for MSDN Magazine. I joined Microsoft in 2006 as a product planner with the certification team at Microsoft Learning. Prior to that, I spent my career as a developer and later as an architect. My main technology passions include pretty much anything on language theory, agile development, and service-oriented architecture.
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