Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

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Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:25:05 GMT

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re: #5 Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Steve Campbell — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:47:23 GMT

I noticed that yesterday, and while I think it is mostly good, I found it somewhat annoying in the particular instance where I want to write 1 line of code for each property of an object. Before, I could type the first letter of the previous property, and then just scroll down to the next. But now, it is much harder.

Perhaps if the filtering was a tad-less aggressive (>= instead of LIKE)

re: #5 Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Josh Stodola — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:02:34 GMT

Wonderful! I've wanted this feature for several years. Is it an option? Some people might get annoyed by it and wish to disable it.

Keep up the great work!

VB2008 intellisense is more intelligent!

Parthasarathy Mandayam — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:38:03 GMT

VB2008 intellisense filters data as you type not just by first letter. Check out this cool feature which

re: #5 Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

vikram — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:04:17 GMT

is there any config from where we can turn it on and off?

re: #5 Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Kyralessa — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:17:15 GMT

My first thought when I heard about this was "Wow, that sounds like it'll be really slow." And instead, it's lightning fast!

re: #5 Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Oscar — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:49:16 GMT

It should be able to be turn on, or off (that future) in a options (somewhere) so if people like the guy had some hard time with that future, could be able to adjust it to be off.

But I think that future is great!!!

re: #5 Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Chris Haas — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:15:48 GMT

I love it and hate it at the same time, but mostly love it. I would be happiest if there was a feature similar to the Ctrl key and transparency that turned the filter on and off. Keep it on by default but allow us to un-filter if needed without backspacing.

re: #5 Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

VBTeam — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:08:57 GMT

There is no current option to turn the filtering on or off. But if you press Ctrl+J at any time, that will give you the full list. That is one way you can toggle. Backspacing will also switch to the full list.

Thanks,

Lisa

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Chris Haas — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:15:13 GMT

Ctrl+J - I'm completey happy now! Thanks!

re: #5 Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Rajeev Jain — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:29 GMT

Hi,

I, Rajeev Jain, am writing a book for school students in India in which Visual Basic is the main programming languages. This is as per Indian CBSE syllabus. For this I have downloaded the Express Edition of VB 2008.

My sincere apologies for using this medium to contact you as I have no others option to reach you or the concerned person. I wanted to check if I am allowed to distribute the VB Express edition to Indian school students or not? Also, is there any possibility that I get some help from Microsoft to promote the Visual Basic education in Indian School and Colleges?

I realized (after giving free training in many schools and colleges) that there are not many quality teachers to teach students. More than students, it’s the teachers’ training that’s more important.

Looking forward for an early reply.

Thanks

-Rajeev Jain

www.linkedin.com/in/rajeevjain72

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re: #5 Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

Brian Brewder — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:48:57 GMT

I've been using Visual Assist X for awhile for essentially a single feature. Filtering. I like the way they filter far more than the way Visual Studio does.

Instead of assuming I know how the variable, propery, method, etc. starts, they let you type any part of it, including acronyms. This has saved me a tremendous amount of time and I really wish that it was built into Visual Studio (add-ins always seem to cause more problems than they are worth).

If you want to know more about how Visual Assist X works, I've blogged about it on my website (http://www.redwerb.com/blogs/redwerb/archive/2007/04/13/visual-assist-x.aspx).

#5 今日のワンポイント : VB の IntelliSense に入力中のフィルタ処理機能を追加 (Lisa Feigenbaum)

The Visual Basic Team — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:26:43 GMT

VB2008 の IntelliSense の設計目標は、この機能を使うユーザーの生産性を最大限に高めることでした。ユーザーがこの機能を使うときの問題点の 1 つは、 IntelliSense であまりにも多くの入力候補が表示されるため、目的の項目に近づいているかどうかを判断するのが難しいことでした。基本的には、すべての入力候補を読んで確認する必要がありました。これでは効率的とは言い難いですよね。この問題を解決するため、

re: Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

erk — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:37:30 GMT

hate it most of the time, it slows me down, hope you give the users the option to turn it off and just pop up when i press ctrl+space

re: Did you know? VB IntelliSense now filters as you type! (Lisa Feigenbaum)

VBTeam — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:54:37 GMT

Hi erk,

Here is where you can find the option to turn off intelliSense:

* Select Tools -> Options

* In that dialog, navigate to Text Editor - Basic - General

* Uncheck "Auto list members"

IntelliSense will still appear when you press Ctrl+Space. (Ctrl+Space will show you everything.) You can also use Ctrl+J to display just the relevant items for the current context.

Lisa