INTELLIGENT intelli-sense in C# 2.0; can it be ....
Whilst i am on the topic of C# 2.0 ... yes it is nice to have customers that are willing adopters of the “early adopter” program from Microsoft, it let's you “play” properly with all the new toys during “normal” work hours.
One nice little quirk that the kind folk on the C# IDE team have fixed is the case-sensitivy issues of the previous intelli-sense.
What do I mean I hear you ask; well anybody ever noticed what happened in C# 1.1 when you started typing “consol” .... well nothing initially unless you remember to hit Ctrl+Space. Not a big deal you say ... well what happens when you type “console.” ... still nothing, why? well because the previous IDE does not know about console with a small c.
C# 2.0 IDE has thankfully have fixed that ...
as you start typing “conso” the intelli-sense window pops up and displays the correct capitalised Console. Even if you do not decide to select the entry and continue to type out the full console in lower case, as soon as you hit “.” the inteli-sense auto fixes you case problem and the proceeds to supply you with the next level of help.
ok it's silly i know ... but there have been an number of times during fantic development when i hit Ctrl+Space expecting the IDE to prompt me what to do next and nothing happens simply cause i forgot that pesky Shift key at the beginning. call me lazy but i love it, when you have so much typing to do in one day remembering to hold down the Shift key every time is a real pain.
it is these little things that make me look forward to launching VS everyday.
now let's hope and pray that some of the major issues from VS 2003 have been fixed .... i'll post about this soon watch this space ...