Re: Simple question about browsing for definitions in VS2005
"Ajay Kalra" wrote:
I was expected there would be a better way of configuring
VS2005, rather
than spending something on a third party tool. Thanks for
answering,
however.
I have found Intelllisense to be a struggle from users
perspective.
MSFT apparently rehashed all of this in VS2005 but it
still lacks
significantly what Visual Assist offers. Its one of the
useful tools
for VS.
While VA has more features than default IntelliSense I can't
agree that VA is significantly better. VA is quite rude to
IDE, it can override something else's menu item, it
interferes with debugger tooltips, it slows down loading of
solution. Overall impression is that VA is too much
intrusive.
In VS2005 IntelliSense is improved greatly. It's quite rare
when it stops working for me even with C++ code and it
recovers quite quickly. It always works with .NET projects.
Also, I noticed that IntelliSense becomes more like
just-in-time compiler, i.e. it shows actual state of the
code underneath. For example, it has handy feature of
showing actual types with templates. VA is less intelligent
in that respect and does simple search and match.
Many people praise VA because it always brings something
even if result is wrong, while IntelliSense appears stalled.
Many times VA can't decide what to bring, so it just shows
all available matches without consideration about
dead/unavailable code (disabled by preprocessor directives,
not included in current source file, etc.). IntelliSense
narrows choice to actually available code.
With VC6 VA was tremendous help. However, VS implements more
and more features from version to version. Now VS
IntelliSense has almost all the features that VA has. So, I
stopped to use VA with VS2005 completely.