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Filip Frącz
Filip Frącz

Reputation: 5947

VS 2008 Intellisense hanging on right click

I have a fairly large C++ solution in Visual Studio 2008 SP1. When I RIGHT CLICK, I see the updating intellisense in the status bar and the whole studio freezes for several minutes.

Right click worked fine in 2005.

Any workarounds?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3019

Answers (3)

Not Sure
Not Sure

Reputation: 5963

Intellisense is known to kill over on large C++ projects. The only reliable solution I have found (despite their attempts to hotfix) is to disable Intellisense by removing/renaming Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcpackages\feacp.dll.

Luckily, an add-on like Visual Assist is quite the superior replacement to Intellisense, I find.

Upvotes: 2

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 13239

Delete you ncb files, and let them regenerate. This how we usually workaround intellisense when it is behaving badly. It akes a bit to regenerate but it is worth it.

Upvotes: 4

Fry
Fry

Reputation: 4286

Updating intellisense on larger projects just kills productivity - Visual Assist is a much better replacement. I think though that intellisense is also linked to the way VS parses the code for the designer, so a more temporary solution to test with is to replace your .ncb file with a folder called [solution].ncb

I highly recommend Visual Assist though

Upvotes: 5

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