How to rebuild VS2010 IDE Intellisense?

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some are working some are not working.

for example,

i did

using System.Web.Security;

MembershipUser myObject = Membership.GetUser();
        string UserID = myObject.ProviderUserKey.ToString();
        Response.Write(UserID);

the membershipuser is not highlighted in green. and System.Web. is not listing objects

but the code is working fine though. How do I make the intellisense work fine?

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 24 '15 at 20:11

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Try resetting your Intellisense cache, Edit>Intellisense>Clear local cache.

Or try nuking it - delete your [SolutionName].sdf and .suo files

Edit:

VS 2010 equivalent is Project>Rescan Solution

edited Sep 24 '15 at 20:11

Preet Sangha

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answered Jan 28 '11 at 16:20

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Edit>Intellisense>Clear local cache option is not avaialble in my copy of VS 2010 – Canacourse May 22 '11 at 13:42
Make sure your currently editing text in the code editor. If you last selected a project in the Solution Explorer, for example, the option won't appear. – Dlongnecker May 23 '11 at 15:25
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Tried that no joy. Option still is'nt there. – Canacourse May 23 '11 at 16:15
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I think the VS 2010 eqivalelent is Project>Rescan Solution – tletnes Jan 21 '13 at 22:50
I added the menu item from customizations menu, but its disabled.going for nuke... – Behrooz Apr 12 '13 at 08:51

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 02 '14 at 02:59

I'm using VS2010 and Project > Rescan Solution seems to do the trick, although it seems to take longer than normal. I suppose it's because it is rebuilding the entire cache, rather than selectively updating parts of it.

If you're using VsVim or other non-default keybinds, alt+P+S still does the trick.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 01 '12 at 00:02

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If the cs file's build action is not set to compile, that will also cause the Intellisense to not work within that file.

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 03 '11 at 01:14

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The solution that worked for me is to use the following at the command line (or Start->Run):

devenv /resetuserdata

answered Dec 03 '11 at 01:14

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 01 '15 at 20:05

I'm using VS2005, but, I found that, in order convince it to build intellisense for boost, I had to specify the explicit path to the boost includes - shades of 1988! A relative path did not work. Dunno how this is going to affect the team, might try the environment variable trick to see if that's a workaround this poor indexing implementation.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/fa8277f9-ecf0-40a6-8e0e-118e4615d5bc/intellisense-and-nonstandard-directories

score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 22 '15 at 21:37

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I think the VS 2010 equivalent is Project>Rescan Solution – tletnes Jan 21 '13 at 22:50

This is what worked for me.

answered Jun 22 '15 at 21:37

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