Two separate questions really, for those of you who have upgraded from 2008 to 2010:
- Does intellisense work much better in this version in terms of completeness?
- Does it still suffer from corrupted NCB files and other performance/stability issues?
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The IntelliSense parser was completely rewritten for VS2010. The .ncb file is history. It's now a .sdf file, a SQL Server Compact dbase. It works very well on my machine, I have seen very few complaints about it. Notable is that the C++/CLI language has lost IntelliSense support due to the rewrite.
Hans Passant
2010-09-01 12:45:27
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I have done side-by-side tests with large projects open in 2008 and 2010 (doing nothing to the project but letting it convert) and the difference is very large. In 2008, I would see the wrong suggestion for up to 30 seconds after editing (eg change a member function name, the old name is still in the dropdown), I would see intellisense unavailable, and general nonresponsiveness. In 2010 the exact same steps would result in much quicker suggestions (instant instead of 7 seconds), never a wrong suggestion ever, and never "unavailable" though sometimes it might take a second or two to come up, it comes up and without my having to ask again.
I have not had a loss of intellisense yet in a C++ project under 2010. If you're a native developer, you will be happy. In C++/CLI, you'll be typing blind - intellisense is completely gone from there.
Kate Gregory
2010-09-01 12:54:41
It seems very weird that C++.net has lost support. I don't use it, but is this admission it's a pointless languaage?
John
2010-09-01 18:25:29
Keeping in mind that I don't work there and so only know what I've been told, I would say no. It's more a reflection of the restrictions being part of a larger product can impose. Intellisense was completely rewritten this time around, which is great. Essentially the C++ team had to do it twice, since C++/CLI has different keywords etc. There wasn't time to do both native and managed within the timeframe alloted for the entire Visual Studio 2010 release. When you're part of a larger whole you don't always get to set the schedule.
Kate Gregory
2010-09-01 19:37:25
True but they have great intellisense for .NET languages (I assume not just C#) so I naively assumed C++.net would not be a full new rewrite.
John
2010-09-05 20:54:36