Yep, I hated VC6 for the intellisense as well... however, I found WholeTomato's Visual Assist more than compensated for that. I pretty much Skipped VS2002 and want to VS2003... been upgrading each time a new version comes out. Most of my work now deals with WPF, which, sadly the designer in VS2008 is, well, poor (even though I generally edit the XML directly and just use the designer as a sanity check).