Intellisense (I think) malfunction?
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I've never had this problem before on any other computer or on my previous installation of VS.Net. (I have VS.Net 2003 Pro) What I think is referred to as intellisense (the little context-sensitive drop down box that offers an alphabetical list of suggestions when you're typing code) seems to always be defaulting to something in the "t" range as follows: When I type
txtSomething(a textbox on my form) and then.the box comes up withtextlengthhighlighted as the suggestion. This happens when I refer to any object (combo box/label/the form itself) in code and want to change a property of that object. It's not really a problem in most cases, but when I want to change or get the text in a text box (like in the example above), I can't simply typetxtSomething.text = ...or else the intellisense thinks I want to select.textlengthand kindly inserts it for me when I press the space bar after typingtextwhich then producestxtSomething.textlength = .... the only two ways I can stop it from doing this are by pressing the up arrow key twice after typingtextbut before pressing the space bar(so as to selecttextinstead oftextlength, or just going back to correct it each time. Generally, I like this feature of VB/VS.net, but it's not working the way I think it's supposed to. Anyone know what's happening? how to shut it off? reset something? thanks in advance sincerely, Brett Peirce - PolerBear To err is human; To forgive: divine. -- modified at 1:58 Tuesday 18th October, 2005 -
I've never had this problem before on any other computer or on my previous installation of VS.Net. (I have VS.Net 2003 Pro) What I think is referred to as intellisense (the little context-sensitive drop down box that offers an alphabetical list of suggestions when you're typing code) seems to always be defaulting to something in the "t" range as follows: When I type
txtSomething(a textbox on my form) and then.the box comes up withtextlengthhighlighted as the suggestion. This happens when I refer to any object (combo box/label/the form itself) in code and want to change a property of that object. It's not really a problem in most cases, but when I want to change or get the text in a text box (like in the example above), I can't simply typetxtSomething.text = ...or else the intellisense thinks I want to select.textlengthand kindly inserts it for me when I press the space bar after typingtextwhich then producestxtSomething.textlength = .... the only two ways I can stop it from doing this are by pressing the up arrow key twice after typingtextbut before pressing the space bar(so as to selecttextinstead oftextlength, or just going back to correct it each time. Generally, I like this feature of VB/VS.net, but it's not working the way I think it's supposed to. Anyone know what's happening? how to shut it off? reset something? thanks in advance sincerely, Brett Peirce - PolerBear To err is human; To forgive: divine. -- modified at 1:58 Tuesday 18th October, 2005hey i have had this problem alot, too, but it was with daSomething.Fill and it kept selecting FillSchema. the best solution i found was to type the same commands over and over, but using something completely different. once it starts selecting the new command for you, then it should be fixed for the other one. another problem is, (though it not be relavent in this case) is if the desired word comes after the selected word, you will have to type out almost the entire word to get intellisense to select it. your best bet is to type the "t", scroll to your selection and hit ctrl+space. i'm not sure of any way to "reset" intellisense, though i think there should be. hope this helps, stephen
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hey i have had this problem alot, too, but it was with daSomething.Fill and it kept selecting FillSchema. the best solution i found was to type the same commands over and over, but using something completely different. once it starts selecting the new command for you, then it should be fixed for the other one. another problem is, (though it not be relavent in this case) is if the desired word comes after the selected word, you will have to type out almost the entire word to get intellisense to select it. your best bet is to type the "t", scroll to your selection and hit ctrl+space. i'm not sure of any way to "reset" intellisense, though i think there should be. hope this helps, stephen
Thank you greatly. I did happen to notice it suggesting other things for other objects since that post and managed to follow your advice before reading it. Thank you nonetheless for your answer.
sincerely, Brett Peirce - PolerBear To err is human; To forgive: divine.