What do you consider the most important aspects of Intellisense (in any IDE)?
Reduced effort remembering and typing class/method/property names being the most obvious, but what are some less obvious forms of assistance that help you with your job?
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Just typing the first 3 characters and completing the name is a like better than sliced bread :)
leppie
2009-03-13 20:41:46
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Discovering methods and features that you never knew existed.
Jon Erickson
2009-03-13 20:42:09
As long as the 'non-browsable' attribute has not been applied! :p
leppie
2009-03-13 20:43:54
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I do a lot of native Win32 development, so knowing what the 7th parameter of CreateWindowEx is without having to go to MSDN is invaluable.
Michael
2009-03-13 20:42:15
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I like to think I learned to use the .NET Framework mostly by browsing Intellisense. The ability to browse all available methods and properties, get a description of their function and guide to their usage all without leaving my editor is a HUGE asset.
Joshua Poehls
2009-03-13 20:43:05
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Easy way to see the signature of a class/method. Reduced misspellings (and thus less time spent compiling only to find a trivial error).
tvanfosson
2009-03-13 20:43:29
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I spend far less time searching through help files, books, and the web now that Intellisense is becoming arguably ubiquitous.
Jeremy Bade
2009-03-14 05:13:55