If you practice TDD or routinely write stub code that references classes or members that you’ve not yet created then you’re well aware of one of IntelliSense’s biggest annoyances – it overwrites any non-existent type or member names you type with the closest known match. Before creating a class or adding a new method, developers first write a unit test. Programming methodologies like Test Driven Development (TDD) encourage writing code using a consume-first pattern. Entering Console.WH displays two properties: LargestWindowHeight and WindowHeight. Additionally, you can search for Pascal cased types and members by entering just the capital letters in the type or member name. As you’d expect, the list includes those members that start with the word Window – WindowHeight, WindowLeft, WindowTop, and WindowWidth – but it also includes those members that include the word Window – LargestWindowHeight, LargestWindowWidth, SetWindowPosition, and SetWindowSize. It’s also easier to find the type or member you’re looking for, as IntelliSense now searches for any matches that contain the text you enter rather than limiting the results to those terms that match directly.įor example, typing in Console.Window displays eight matches. For starters, it’s noticeably faster than in previous versions.

Visual Studio 2010’s IntelliSense has been drastically improved.

Using this feature you can examine multiple files at once across multiple monitors. With Visual Studio 2010 you can also float code and designer windows and move them outside of the top-level window. Visual Studio 2008 allows developers to move, resize, and pin these windows inside Visual Studio’s top-level window, or to float them and move them anywhere on the desktop, including to a secondary monitor.

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