IntelliSense (also called as auto-completion) is best known for its use in the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment.
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Should newbies use IDE autocomplete (Intellisense)?
I often encounter this when I am helping out someone who is new to programming and learning it for the first time. I'm talking about really new newbies, still learning about OOness, constructing ...
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Moving away from .Net to Ruby and coping without intellisense
I am in the process of trying to learn Ruby, however after spending nearly 10 years in the MS stack I am struggling to get by without intellisense. I've given RubyMine a try which does help however ...
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Is there any evidence that Intellisense reduces productivity? [duplicate]
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Should newbies use IDE autocomplete (Intellisense)?
I was having a conversation with another developer the other night about the pros and cons of Visual Studio. He was ...
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What is the term for IntelliSense in a non-Microsoft world?
When talking about IDE software or about what a programming language allows you to do or not at the source level, I often use the word IntelliSense, which has a precise meaning in the Microsoft world, ...
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Should a method comment include both a summary and return description when they're often so similar?
I'm a proponent of properly documented code, and I'm well aware of the possible downsides of it. That is outside of the scope of this question.
I like to follow the rule of adding XML comments for ...
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I have a bad memory. Is dynamic typing language+vim appropriate for me?
I am switching from C#+Visual Studio to Ruby+Vim for a few months. The only thing that I am missing from C#/Visual Studio is intellisense, especially when I have a new ruby gem to familiarize.
As a ...
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Is functional intellisense and code browsing more beneficial than the use of dependency injection containers
This question is really based on PHP, but could be valid for other dynamically typed, interpreted languages and specifically the methods of generating code insight and object browsing in development ...
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Free Typescript editor with definition based code completion feature [closed]
I know that a plugin for Visual Studio exists. However i can't afford VS so i'm looking for a free alternative which can be used to code TypeScript and aware of the .d.ts definition files and can do ...
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Is Intellisense faster in Visual Studio 2012 compared to Visual Studio 2010 for C++ projects? [closed]
We switched to VS2010 from VS2003 a few months ago, and there are many many improvements. But the speed of Intellisense is not one of them (although it does generate higher quality results, which is ...
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Intelligent IDE code generation
Was wondering why isn't there an intelligent IDE? I mean the new Visual Studio 2010 is okay, you press tab and it helps you complete for instance the required keywords for an event handler. But i'm ...
