Anyone have any issues with intellisence in VS2008? Mine was working fine then for no reason just stopped working. Searching on the internet has produced no solutions.

I have VS2008 installed with SP1. I have tried unchecking and checking again the checkboxes in Tools, Options, Text editor All languages and Basic. Doing this in VS2005 works but nothing happens in VS2008. No intellisence.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling VS2008.

Anyone any ideas. VS is unworkable without intellisence.

Mike Beddows

Not everyone agrees..... ;) http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/Do...otTheMind.html

Have you tried resetting your settings through Tools | Import and Export Settings?

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
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SOLUTION

Thanks for the reply Imar. I agree with the article you posted, I think I am now too reliant on Intellisense. Without it I dont think I could program effectively, esspecially with VS2008 - Im doing some XAML and finding the help not very good, and have to rely on the intellisense to help.

Anyway, I have managed to find the problem. I located a document last night on the web that said installing MSDN may be an issue. 2 days ago I installed MSDN for VS2008, and yesterday I rebooted which is when the problem occured. So I tried the solutions on the web - repairing VS2008 and running some command line prompts to register a DLL (sorry, cant remember which). Still no joy. So I uninstalled everything to do with VS2008 - Document explorer, all SDK's, MSDN, VS2008 then started again. So far I have reinstalled VS2008 and have intellisense back. Dont think I will be installing MSDN again.

May not be the correct or easiest solution but it worked for me.

Mike Beddows

It was a joke, for a large part. I rely on IntelliSense for day-to-day programming as well. But still, it's an interesting read.

Glad everything is working again....

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
http://Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 : in C# and VB, ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Dreamweaver MX 2004
Want to be my colleague? Then check out this post.