Problems with Intellisense???

Microsoft probably thought that they were doing a great deal of good to the common programmer by adding Intellisense to the new Visiual Studio. Sure, it has auto expand capabilities, and probably a whole bunch of amazing geeky capabilities, but the bottom line is, it sucks!

It slows down everything on the computer, visiual studio becomes unresponsive and crashes frequently and most people would rather get their work done rather than wonder what "Updating Intellisense..." actually achieves.

Now, Microsoft actually takes the cake by not providing an option to disable this monster, even though it has known issues!! There is no preference that can turn this off, so you have to resort to the usual bit of hacking, and its rather simple in this case, no need to edit registry entries and increase your blood pressure.

Just do this:

rename or delete \VC\vcpackages\feacp.dll

and then restart Visual Studio. It wont take more than 5 minutes for you to notice the pleasant change. VS is all responsive and hardly hangs. In my opinion, even people who do not know what I am talking about should go ahead and make this change. If you really want to know what you will be losing out on, read this.

Credits to the original idea here.

Labels: Programming