No intellisense in VS2010

Question

I've got no intellisense at all in my VS2010 installation.

I've look at the answers on here, the relevant boxes in Tools->Options are selected and I've tried the "Ctrl-alt-space" shortcut that is also mentioned but nothing.

It's not even showing "Go to definition" when I right click on a variable or auto-tabbing new lines to the right place.

Any hints?

I've tried repairing my installation - I'm not sure if my attempts to install it on my second drive (which I then abandoned) have resulted in some issues but any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I was having the exact same problem in vs2008. All of my settings were correct in Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All languages -> Statement Completion as well.

After much searching, I decided to try to close out of every open source file, close the solution and re-open it. Then re-open the affected source file. This fixed the issue for me and intellisense/Go To Definition returned to full functionality. Unfortunately I can't back this up with hard science/any logic whatsoever, but it did the trick for me. Sorry for the anecdotal answer but thought I would share.

This article may also help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ks1ka3t6(v=vs.71).aspx

Answer 2

For the record, if anyone finds this later I had to use:

http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2010uninstall

To uninstall and then reinstall VS2010.

Answer 3

Have you tried:

Tools->Import and Export Settings-> select "Reset all Settings"