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Intellisense not working in Visual Studio 2008

Since I upgraded my VS2008 Beta2 to the RTM, the intellisense has not been working. I have seen a few posts about this, some suggesting you need to reset the configuration by running

devenv.exe /safemode

(see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241278(VS.80).aspx)

but this did not work for me.

So I had a poke about in Tools|Option and found that on the Text Editor|All Languages that the three checkboxes for Statement Completion where showing neither empty or checked but a fully coloured box - which usually means an unknown settings. So a set these all to checked (a tick) and my Intellisense started working.

Published Dec 01 2007, 10:49 PM by Richard
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Manish said:

Thanks a lot for the post the intellesense works for me now.

January 15, 2008 3:54 PM
 

David said:

Hey buddy... Just wanted to thank you and let you know that this tip helped me out a lot. You probably saved me a day (or more) of frustration trying to figure out this Intellisense bug.

January 15, 2008 4:28 PM
 

Noli San Jose said:

Thanks a lot!!! Saved me from cursing myself for installing VS2008.

January 17, 2008 7:08 AM
 

Johan said:

Thanks a bunch! My intellisense for VS 2008 was borked from the beginning, and recently my 2005 stopped working too. Tried lots of things but this was the first one that worked! Good job!

January 22, 2008 10:00 AM
 

Mike said:

Thanks a million saved my keyboard and monitor from a  good bashing!

February 10, 2008 1:28 PM
 

BA said:

Have tried this suggestion, no effect. I think the fully colored box shows only, there are different settings for different languages.

March 15, 2008 6:46 AM
 

Richard said:

Yes if you look at each language in the options dialog you see a check box for statement completion.

However I have found I only need to set the one for all languages

March 15, 2008 10:14 PM
 

Patrick Farnan said:

Live saver! I was getting very frustrated with my VS 2008! This should boost my productivity no end!

March 18, 2008 10:58 PM
 

MKGagnon said:

Thanks a ton.....I was pulling my hair out...

March 23, 2008 1:50 AM
 

Mark said:

Wish I had seen this before uninstalling/reinstalling vs2008 - intellisense still didn't work - ReSharper had took it out.    Your tip fixed it, thanks very much.

April 1, 2008 12:04 PM
 

Jack Vo said:

Hey guy ! I read the topic and do like that ! But my VS still not working with InteliSense

I don't know why !

When I uncheck Hide Advanced Parameter in Tool --> Options --> Chọn Text Editor --> Statement Completion. and restart VS it still checked.

hic, please help me to fix it !

April 5, 2008 5:50 AM
 

Ozzie Perez said:

Duuuude!! Thanks... you're a life saver. :D

April 7, 2008 2:06 PM
 

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April 7, 2008 2:17 PM
 

Remy said:

Hey, saved me a lot of time... thank you

April 9, 2008 12:58 PM
 

Praveen Modi said:

Thanks so much. Intellisense works great now :-)

You made my day!

April 16, 2008 3:23 PM
 

Justin said:

Sweet! It worked. I just uninstalled Resharper, it must have disabled Intellisense somehow.

April 21, 2008 1:50 AM
 

Jay said:

Thanks, that worked great! I have resharper in VS2005 so it apparently also disabled intellisense in VS2008.

April 25, 2008 10:11 PM
 

Inga said:

That worked nicely! It was driving me nuts cause the boxes were ticked for c# and still it wasn't working. just checking it for all languages did the trick for me!! Thanks! :)

May 1, 2008 10:17 AM
 

ahsan shafqat said:

Thanks a lot

May 6, 2008 8:30 AM
 

Shayne said:

I have tried this and it doesnt seem to stick. When I open up the setting the center one is a green square. I uncheck and check it so it has a check mark then hit ok and when I close it and go back it goes right back to the green square. Anybody else experience this?

May 19, 2008 9:05 PM
 

nawal said:

intelli sense is not working in .aspx page. i m using visual studio 2008 express edition

May 21, 2008 6:24 AM
 

Marcus Hammarberg said:

Thank you!

I did not want to re-install the Visual Studio 2008. You helped me!

Thanks

May 26, 2008 11:38 AM
 

James Jones said:

God bless your soul.

June 3, 2008 9:08 PM
 

Aron said:

DUDE YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!

I was going nuts over this!

June 6, 2008 8:32 AM
 

Dave said:

Thanks, saved me a lottttt of time...

I was feed up with VS 2008...

June 10, 2008 6:47 PM
 

Digger76 said:

Thank you so much!! I was looking and struggling for almost a day before i saw your tip. That's all it takes to solve this issue and IntelliSense works fine now. Saved me a lot of work.

June 11, 2008 9:37 AM
 

Nick Burns said:

Just started a sample course and had the intellisense problem. Instead of getting frustrated and start digging through menus, I did a quick search for "vs 2008 intellisense not working" and in two clicks found this tip. Worked perfectly!

June 11, 2008 4:44 PM
 

Kevin said:

I never leave comments, but I am so happy now that I just had to.  This is the best thing that has happened all week.

Thanks!!!

June 11, 2008 8:40 PM
 

Nick said:

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!  You saved my life!

June 12, 2008 5:43 PM
 

Andy Hersche said:

I ran into this issue with VSTS Development Edition 2008 as it all of a sudden appeared and with your help I'm up and running again with full power.

Can you handle another thank you... thanks

June 13, 2008 9:05 PM
 

vivdso said:

I new google will never let me down. :)

Thanks a ton. Not sure why it was showing fully coverd boxes.

June 17, 2008 8:41 PM
 

Susan Sullivan said:

Thank you very much.  Intellisense works again!

June 24, 2008 8:28 PM
 

Jason said:

Saved me!  Thanks!

July 1, 2008 8:11 PM
 

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August 14, 2008 3:12 PM
 

Erwin's Blog said:

Recently my intellisense on Visual Studio 2008 stops working, after some search I found a solution at

November 5, 2008 7:06 PM
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