At last I got the time to install VS.NET 2008 Beta 2 and start playing with it. The first thing I noticed was that it starts faster than VS.NET 2005, actually its so fast that I can hardly see the splash screen (which looks better than previous versions).
So I wanted to start with a test project, File -> New Project…bla bla bla, I got to the C# code editor and started typing some code, and what do I find?? NO INTELLISENSE!!!!, hit Ctrl + Space….nothing, this. nothing….Ok, it’s the first time it runs on my machine, so may be a restart would solve the problem.
Close it and reopen it again..gaahhhh…no intellisense again (panic!!) It feels like you're walking down an unkown road with no guide.
I fired up the browser hoping that I might find some one out there that faced this problem before. Did a bit of googling, but got nothing. It seems I'm the only one having this problem…damn.
So I decided to do it the hard way and just poke around in the IDE to see if I can find something. The first thing I checked was the intellisense settings in the C# code editor (DUH!!), everything looked normal, intellisense is enabled and all the default options were set. I unchecked the box "Show completion list after a character is typed" and then checked it again, closed the dialog box, restarted VS.NET…….lo and behold, intellisense is working…woo hoo…
So there you go, if you ever face this problem, try the steps above, they might work for you as well.
Happy coding!!