How Visual Studio Intellisense works?

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Can somebody please shed light on how exactly intellisense works in Visual Studio?

Are you looking for how to use it efficiently or details on how it is implemented? — Fredrik Mörk, Mar 18 '11 at 06:25
How it is implemented? Just to know .... :-) because as soon as i make change somewhere its reflected in the intellisense, that's just amazing. — Novice, Mar 18 '11 at 06:26

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '11 at 06:27

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The secret behind intellisense is Build Providers, which run in the background. This article will throw more light on this topic:

http://aspalliance.com/1102_Creating_a_Custom_BuildProvider_in_ASPNET_20

Hope this helps,

answered Mar 18 '11 at 06:27

Pranay Rana

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '11 at 06:28

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Here's an MSDN article providing an overview. It discusses features, language specific topics, customation, when it's not available and a number of other topics.

answered Mar 18 '11 at 06:28

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How Visual Studio Intellisense works?

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