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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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I try to stay away from coding in VS. I use SlickEdit (which can read VS6 .dsp and VS.NET .sln files). As someone else pointed out, intellisense is great for classes and methods you may not be familiar with. I have all our third party libraries tagged, and it makes things much simpler.
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Perhaps I missed something (I guess the just that it is called like that), but what IS intelligsense ?
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Are you kidding!? Who wants to look everything up all of the time...unless you have it all memorized.
Better yet, use Visual Assist to make intellisense even better.
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Intellisense is not a worthless tool, it works perfect for most of us. Ok, I agree with you that if you got problems with it, you can better disable it.
It's a lot easier to write code with intellisense, since i Double-Click my Expressions from the list
I mostly type in the commands, but sometimes I lost the name of a property or function of one of my controls in my application and then is intellisense extremely handy
Lost in cyberspace...
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Ease of use has to be high on my list. Take for example VC6 'v' VS.NET. I have only been using VS.NET a short while but what a waste. The new IDE is slow (another story), over complicated (Dialog Hell) and a lot harder to use that VC6 ever was.
When will MS stop bloating their software and put a bit more time into helping the people who actually use their software 8 hours a day, every day.
Features like
Intellisense (it's better at least in VS.Net)
Auto completion, not just class/method names (something I miss a lot from Netbeans/Forte (Java, I know))
Case correction
And other small editor enhancements make it so much easier to use.
Tim
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kempust wrote:
The new IDE is slow (another story), over complicated (Dialog Hell) and a lot harder to use that VC6 ever was.
I love the new IDE, it's great when you get used to it.
kempust wrote:
Case correction
Ohhh no, not in C/C++, that thing only works in VB
Fix the case in hwnd, should it be HWND or hWnd, I often use both :P
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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I don't agree - it's grown on me rather quickly. It is less stable (not surprising for such a radical change) and does require more screen real estate than previously - but then so did VC 4.0. Ever use VC 1.52?
The one thing I do miss is WndTabs[^]...VS.NET's tabbed interface is nowhere near as good.
As an add-in author I can also tell you that the VS.NET extensibility model is a huge improvement on that in VS6.
Anna
www.annasplace.me.uk
"Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch
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