Re: VS2005 - Disable automatic IntelliSense updating?


Kirjah Salys wrote:
> Try loading the open source MAME (source from mame.net combined with
> integrated project import or project files from
> http://www.vcmame.net/). I don't have an excessively fast CPU, but the
> IDE almost completely hangs on it (and causes everything else to become
> largely unresponsive), has been going for a long time time (perhaps on
> the initial import, but seems to restart the intellisense thing with
> every minor change to anything, regardless or not if it's actually
> saved to disk), no end in sight. MAME's codebase is excessively large
> compared to other things, though seems to prompt some problems, and
> make problems that occur when it tries to parse other codebases more
> clear. Previous versions of VC++ never decided to hang like this on
> even 'excessively large' codebases.
>
> I was looking rather desperately for some way to disable the 'all at
> once' intellisense building on a per-project basis because of this.
> It's frustrating to have to delay working on something/building
> something for several hours because of 'intellisense'. It largely
> defeats the purpose of having it in such a case.


I would like to second that - with VCMAME it totally kills the IDE.

I'm running on a 3 GHz P4 with Hyperthreading, and it takes several
minutes to completely update Intellisense when I first open my VC
solution. Surely there's a better way to handle this without being so
agressive on the CPU. I can tell when Intellisense is working because
my CPU fan speed increases noticeably.

Cheers

Jason

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