Noob here. Does anyone know of a way (plug-in perhaps) to get IntelliSense to work in Visual Studio 200+ when writing C code? Xcode has auto completion for C. Why not VS? Where is the love Billy boy? I would just switch to another compiler but my instructor grades our homework in VS and the last thing I need to worry about at this point is compiler configuration bugs.
To get IntelliSense, you need to create a project. If you're just editing a raw source file, you don't get it.Originally Posted by MSF1981
Make a dummy project, throw your source/headers into it, and you'll get IntelliSense.
Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
Wow, autocompletion in Xcode is way better than IntelliSense then. Autocompletion kicks on in Xcode when prototypes and variables are declared. Unlike in VS. So far I have only seen IntelliSense work when I'm accessing a structure member with the dot notation.
The reason IntelliSense is not automatically activated for editing single source files is that it produces an index file, and these index files would litter all over the place.
How hard is it to just create an empty project and add your source files to it?
Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
IntelliSense works just fine on anything else - just press CTRL-Space whenever you have typed a small part of a symbol, and it will give you a list to chose from (unless it's complete enough to be unique).
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That's not right.
IntelliSense kicks in whenever calling a function, accessing a struct, etc.
Although it is not THE best for C/C++ (it's far better for C# & Co, screw you Microsoft!), but fortunately there are tools that makes it better. Unfortunately, these tools are not free and expensive.
