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IntelliSense gets more power in Whidbey

IntelliSense has got even more powerful in Whidbey(Visual Studio 2005). After using Whidbey for few projects, it is so compelling, it is kind of tough to switch back!

As you can see, there is an icon for properties (little hand with a sheet, the standard icon for properties in all MS products) that shows up in the IntelliSense. Dont you think it would be cool to be able to distinguish a read-only-property(only 'get' implemented) from read-write-property (both 'get' and 'set' implemented) 'icon'ically? This would prevent the developers from making compilation errors by assigning some value to a read-only property. As always, prevention is better than cure :) ! Leave your comment and let me see if I can make a case to the VS team :).

Published Thursday, August 12, 2004 1:57 AM by rajmohan

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# re: IntelliSense gets more power in Whidbey


Right on. Congrats.

Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:34 AM by Stephane Rodriguez

# re: IntelliSense gets more power in Whidbey

I like some features improve in web edit. The Whidbey works like DreamWeaer, when I switch HTML DESIGN to SOURCE VIEW it can locate the cursor in html code which for html element I selected. The another is IntelliSense can help me type in any tag element and css style.
Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:12 AM by birdshome

# re: IntelliSense gets more power in Whidbey

Its not in already :? You know, I have always loved the IntelliSense feature but the wholetomato guys showed there is much room for improvement. Maybe MS should employ those guys :)
Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:42 AM by PL

# re: IntelliSense gets more power in Whidbey

The intuitive thing would be to have the property sheet with a little lock/key on it.. that's my vote.
Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:55 AM by drebin

# re: IntelliSense gets more power in Whidbey

Make sure you do something intelligent with a write-only property, too. They're rare, but shouldn't completely confuse intellisense.

One thing I'd love is if the little red error underline would show up immediately when typing "=" (or += or any variant) after a readonly property. I usually have to wait until compiletime to get that feedback...
Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:57 PM by Stuart

# re: IntelliSense gets more power in Whidbey

Stuart: I agree with you. IntelliSense should show that wavy red line as soon as the user types = after a read-only property. I thought of the same thing.
Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:03 PM by Rajmohan

# re: IntelliSense gets more power in Whidbey

Also, to determine whether to display the red wavy line, the editor would have to wait until the next char typed after '=', just in case the user decides to type '=='.

But I would probably disable any online syntax checker on my VC env, I get easily distracted while coding :) It took me some time to get used to intellisense when I first used VS.NET.

I like the little changes in VC 2005 Express where it goes back to VC6 shortcuts. The solution folder pane is back to the left side where it belongs, and 'F7' is used to compile rather than Ctrl-Shift-B.
Saturday, August 28, 2004 2:29 AM by Robbie de la Cruz
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