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Chris Losinger wrote:
as i don't like to bring mice into those situations
I'm sure the women in your life have appreciated not having to jump up onto chairs during dinner to avoid them 
A pack of geeks, pale and skinny, feeling a bit pumped and macho after a morning of strenuous mouse clicking and dragging, arriving en masse at the gym. They carefully reset the machines to the lowest settings, offer to spot for each other on the 5 lb dumbells, and rediscover the art of macrame while attempting to jump rope. -Roger Wright on my colleagues and I going to gym each day at lunch
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When I saw it first it looked cool, but then when I found I had to disable it because it would just hang the editor while I was trying to type something and it was just more annoying than it was useful
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Anonymous wrote:
Re: "Inteligsense" = worthless marketing gimic
yep, and all that claim to use it and claim it's great are brainwashed Bill Gates disciples, or paid by microsoft lawyers.
It's a royal pain to watch a sex drugs and rock'n'roll design decay into an aids crack and techno implementation [sighist] [Agile Programming] [doxygen]
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I use it when it works (and I wish it worked more often than it does).
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Thats where VA comes into play  Try it.
Holy Sh*t! I'm speechless. (hey, that's a first) Marc Clifton, The Lounge
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VA slows things down, often gets confused and, it has a tendency to crash VC.
i always have such high hopes when i get around to trying the latest version (once a year or so). sigh.
-c
Zzzzz...
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Yes, it makes the IDE a bit smaller, crashes I've never seen related to VA. When you clean the cache/history directories periodically, then its also faster. Seems that it caches a bit too much.
And 4.x is also faster than 6.x although they claim its the opposite.
Holy Sh*t! I'm speechless. (hey, that's a first) Marc Clifton, The Lounge
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I've been using it for years now and never had a problem with it.
Can't live without it now.
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Tim Hodgson wrote:
I've been using it for years now and never had a problem with it.
Can't live without it now.
Same here. I like it.
However, there have been times where I installed VC6 on Windows 9x machines to debug Win9x-only problems and Intellisense was so slow I had to disable it.
I've never had any trouble with it on NT-based OSs.
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I agree VA is stunning, can't live without it.
I'm just experimenting with version 6... seems good too.
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The Obliterator
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I've been using it for a while with VS6 and VS.NET and I never really have major problems with it. I think it's a fantastic productivity tool, if I couldn't use it, I'd be 5 times slower.  However, I don't use it on anything slower than a 1.7 GHz and 512 RAM.
-Lunchy
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I've never had it crash once.
Some people love it, some people hate it.
Jon Sagara
Hi! I'm Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart.
-- Uncle Buck
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The idea of VA is great. I really like what it does, but it slows my IDE to a crawl when working on Web projects. It also does funky things that make the IDE too unstable. I have it turned off right now, but wish I could function with it turned on.
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If it starts to make sense, you're in a cult.
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I've seen that under .NET its horrible, but under VC6 its neat. If you periodically delete the cache/history directories its also not such a slow down.
So far I had no big problems with it. I really like it. But its also a matter of how one uses VC. I've seen people getting crazy with VA too
Holy Sh*t! I'm speechless. (hey, that's a first) Marc Clifton, The Lounge
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Andreas Saurwein wrote:
Thats where VA comes into play
VA == "Visual Assembler?" Is there a .NET version?
Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them!
Paul Watson, on BLOGS and privacy - 1/16/2003
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VA = "Visual Assist" by a company called Whole Tomato. Yes they do have a .NET version.
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When it works, it is a wonderful addition to the IDE. I find the VS.NET intellisense to be more reliable than VC6. It is a boon for those of us whose memory for functions and parameters isn't what it used to be.
A good feature is one of those you miss when it's not there and intellisense falls into that category for me.
Michael
The avalanche has started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote.
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Ha, Ha, Ha,
Let me guess your all C developers Intellisense works well in VB 
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Thta's because it has to. VB "programmers" are more like idiot end-users than programmers. If anything goes even slightly wrong, they whine and bitch and moan as if Windows had crashed (again) under the weight of VB's runtime DLL's.
C++ programmers, however, merely click on the icon that starts up MSDN, and continue working.
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Anonymous wrote:
When I saw it first it looked cool, but then when I found I had to disable it because it would just hang the editor while I was trying to type something and it was just more annoying than it was useful
Well I have found intellisense to be a great feature, especially for exploring all the new classes, namespaces etc. Exploring third party components is also a blessing with intellisense.
The only time it does not work is when editing an ASPX file, but that is fine, the rest of the time it is a god send.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Roger Wright wrote:
Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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In VS6 it did not work well at all (I guess no one at MS thought of using a separate thread ), but under VS.NET it seems to work quite well, and is now quite useful.
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It is much better in VS.NEt than it was in VC 6.0. It still messes up some, though.
It can be a bit annoying, too, if you want to actually use the arrow keys to move around in the code instead of selecting something in Intellisense. I often need to do that... I start typing away, then I need to go look at something else, but Intellisense pops up and takes over my cursor. 
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.
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Press the Esc key. That dismisses the Intellisense popup.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I know, or you can click the mouse elsewhere. My point being, sometimes there is an extra keystroke that isn't ordinarily needed.
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.
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I disagree. I find IntelliSense increases my efficiency. First, it speeds up my typing by letting me select member names like "_ImABigLongVerboseMemberName" after typing a couple characters, rather than having to type the whole thing. Second, I don't have nearly as many compile errors from simple typos.
Software Zen: delete this;
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