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metablaster
metablaster

Reputation: 2184

Behavior of intellisense in solution of multiple projects?

There is no way (at least for me) to find out information for this very specific question.

I need to know, If Solution in Visual Studio has multiple projects, how does intellisense works in that case:

  1. does it scan all projects, and spends valuable computer resources for all projects, OR
  2. does intellisense work only for the project I'm currently working on in solution?

If the answer is case 1. (and hopefully you have some reference to backup this claim) then I wan't to know if there is anything I can to to limit inellisense activity to work only on a project I currently have opened.

I don't know but I think this approach could help speed up intellisense, and maybe also help reduce the amount of background tasks related to regualar intellisense scans.

thsese projects are not really small, and I have over 20 of them in one solution, (not much I can do about that btw.), and I'm getting tired of seeing slow performance due to these frequent parsings.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 567

Answers (1)

Mr Qian
Mr Qian

Reputation: 23780

1.does it scan all projects, and spends valuable computer resources for all projects, OR

2.does intellisense work only for the project I'm currently working on in solution?

The answer, of course, is case 1. Intellisense works by default on the entire solution, not on a single project. It just subdivides individual files, such as c++, c#, js, XML, and so on. You can got it from Tools-->Options-->Text Editor-->(c#/c++/javascript/....)-->general/IntelliSense. You can then enable or disable Intellisense based on a single file type.

does intellisense work only for the project I'm currently working on in solution?

I think the answer is negative. I looked for a lot of documents on Intellisense and didn't find any examples of Intellisense being used for a project. This feature of Intellisense is not proposed by Microsoft. If you want this feature, you could suggest a feature to the Support Team to get their attention.

In addition, maybe it's not Intellisense that affects VS performance. You can refer to this document to improve VS performance.

Hope this could help you.

Upvotes: 1

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