Just recently, my Visual Studio 2010 stopped displaying IntelliSense suggestions automatically while I am typing. I can still press ctrl+space to get it to work, but it doesn't automatically show a list of suggestions like it used to. I have already tried disabling all my extensions, restarting VS and the computer, and I have checked all the appropriate settings (Options -> Text Editor -> C# -> IntelliSense) to make sure that it is set to offer suggestions after a character is typed.
Has anyone seen this behavior before? Does anyone have any other suggestions for how I can get IntelliSense to go back to the way things were before? If not, I might just have to do a fresh reinstall of VS...
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[Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages -> CodeLens] Check if check box "Enable CodeLens" is checked
Deleting the .vs folder in the solution solved my issue. You have to exit from Visual Studio and then delete the .vs folder and start Visual Studio again.
Sometimes i've found Intellisense to be slow. Hit the . and wait for a minute and see if it appears after a delay. If so, then I believe there may be a cache that can be deleted to get it to rescan.
Deleted the .suo
file in solution folder to solve the problem.
I also faced the same issue but in VS2013.
I did the below way to fix, It was worked fine.
Close all the opened Visual studio instance.
Then, go to "Developer command prompt" from visual studio tools,
Type it as devenv.exe /resetuserdata
Restart the machine, Open the Visual studio then It will ask you to choose the development settings from initial onwards, thereafter open any solution/project. You'll be amazed.
Hope, it might helps you :)
I'll start off my noting that this hasn't happened since I upgraded my RAM. I was at 4GB and would often have multiple instances of VS open along with SSMS. I have since gone to 8GB and then 16GB.
Here's the steps I go through when I lose intellisense.
If only one file/window appears to be affected, close/reopen that file. If that doesn't work, try below.
In Visual Studio:
If this doesn't work, here's a few more steps to try:
For C++ projects:
MSDN has a few things to try: MSDN suggestions
The corrupt .ncb
file seems most likely.
From MSDN:
.ncb
file..ncb
file.)Notes:
This issue does not appear to be specific to C# as C++ and VB users report the same issue
Tested in VS 2013/2015
Found my answer on https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/130597/unity-intellisense-not-working-after-creating-new-1.html
At the bottommost right look at the blue line where Ln, Col, Spaces, UTF, CRLF,..... here the language is specified. Check that your language and the language specified there are the same. In my case, it was Django Python while I was trying to use HTML.
I hit this today after the following sequence:
The problem was in addition to not saving changes to the new file, it didn't save changes to the project, so after reopening Visual Studio the file was not part of the project. The Show All Files command in Solution Explorer, or Add → Existing Item..., resolved the problem.
I have found that at times even verifying the settings under Options --> Statement Completion (the answer above) doesn't work. In this case, saving and restarting Visual Studio will re-enable Intellisense.
Finally, this link has a list of other ways to troubleshoot Intellisense, broken down by language (for more specific errors).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ecfczya1(v=vs.100).aspx
A new cause for this in the .net core era is having a project loaded for an unsupported .net core version. For instance if you loaded a project from GitHub that was set to use:
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.2</TargetFramework>
<AspNetCoreHostingModel>InProcess</AspNetCoreHostingModel>
</PropertyGroup>
But you only have 2.1 installed or find yourself using Visual Studio 2017 then the compiler wont be able to find the SDK code and thus provide intellisense.
The solution in that case might be to right click on your project and select Edit MyProject.csproj from the context menu and change the target framework as necessary:
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
<AspNetCoreHostingModel>InProcess</AspNetCoreHostingModel>
</PropertyGroup>
This assumes whatever project you loaded can actually be run under a lesser target framework.
Steps to fix are:
Tools
Import and Export Settings
Reset all settings
Back up your config
Select your environment settings and finish
This may be due to the solution configuration changed to Release Mode instead of debug. Right click on solution -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> Set Configuration To Debug if it is in Release.
I simply closed all pages of visual studio and reopened ..it worked.
I have just come to about this problem while installing one of the extensions and its file was deleted by my anti virus so I just disabled my anti virus and reinstalled visual studio. Suggestions are working properly without any changes made after installation.
I had the file excluded from the project so i was not able to debug and have intellisense on that file. Including the file back into the project solved my problem! :)
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