is there a way to change height of intellisense popup in Visual Studio 2010?

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is there a way to change height of intellisense popup in Visual Studio 2010?

Intellisense popup in VS2010 is driving me crazy.

I can only see 9 items at a time in the intellisense popup.

It really makes browsing classes you're not familiar with a lot harder.

In VS2008 you could resize it.

is there a trick to this - or a connect issue someone has already made?

VS2010 Quickwatch: 23 items

VS2010 Main editor: 9 items

Edit: Here's an image. Maximum of 9 items in C# window, but 23 in the quickwatch. Huge productivity difference. Especially since the intellisense popup now does partial matching and not just the beginning of the string.

+2 A:

It isn't resizable (I just spoke to the main developer that works on it). I'm told that the size is fixed mostly for performance reasons, and that there really isn't a way to change this with an extension, as the size calculation is somewhat complicated (it doesn't actually know how big it needs to be until the first time it is shown).

If you feel very strongly that this should be changed, can you file a bug on Connect? That's the best way to give feedback about it, and allow other people to vote on it. It'll likely be immediately Won't Fixed for VS2010, but it may get considered for future releases.

Noah Richards 2010-03-03 21:00:28

i feel very strongly! In Silverlight the DataGrid class has about 171 members. This is 20 pages of intellisense!!! I've written a begging email to ScottGu on this one! The connect issue was resolved as won't fix. I don't know how well you know the main developer but I just want to make it clear that I don't care about a resizable (by dragging) popup - I just want 15, 20, 30 items in the list by default. thanks!

Simon_Weaver 2010-03-03 21:58:17

The problem with defaulting to 15/20/30 items is the performance issue; from what I understand, 9 was a trade-off in showing as much information as possible as fast as possible. That's an especially hard tradeoff if only some users want the larger size, whereas it seems all users want completion to be fast :)I'm sure it'll get looked at for the next release, and they'll see if there is anything they can do to perhaps make the size configurable in *some* way.

Noah Richards 2010-03-04 00:38:48

+4 A:

Unfortunately it seems liek this won't be fixed

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/474009/intellitype-list-has-max-height

Vote for it !

Simon_Weaver 2010-03-03 21:35:15

I've written a begging email to ScottGu on this one. Seems like a simple fix to allow for 15, 20 items. If people don't like it they can just hit Escape !

Simon_Weaver 2010-03-03 22:03:42

Scott responded and passed it on. Fingers crossed !

Simon_Weaver 2010-03-03 22:19:27

unfortuntately pretty definitely won't be 'fixed' in VS2010 RC. btw. changing font size of the intellisense text doesn't give you more items :-(

Simon_Weaver 2010-03-12 06:44:49

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