Re: corrupt intellisense

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:11:11 -0700
Message-ID:
<81197FFB-34F1-4A3F-8080-BDED9BE6716E@microsoft.com>
Hi Ron,

This is a pretty common problem. I periodically delete my .ncb file (for a
project) and allow it to be rebuilt. It doesn't take much time and it seems
to help speed things up as well. FWIW, I think intellisense in 2005 is way
better than it has been in previous versions so things are getting better.

Tom

"Ron Francis" <rfrancis@senet.com.au> wrote in message
news:OHIlP44sHHA.4132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

This post is just informative and relates to Visual Studio 2005.

My Class View wasn't updating after changing variables in a class and was
also showing a class that didn't exist in the solution (I had removed any
reference to it and actually deleted the files).
The solution compiled and ran without a problem.

As a test, I deleted the solution's *.ncb file, the intellisense database.
VS built a new database and the problem was solved.
(The old file was 23 meg and the new one 11kb.)

Regards,
Ron Francis
www.RonaldFrancis.com

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