How do you enable auto-complete functionality in Visual Studio C express edition

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Please guide me  how do you enable autocomplete functionality in VS C    By auto-complete  I mean  when I put a dot after control name  the editor should display a dropdown menu to select from   Thank you

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When you press ctrl   space  look in the Status bar below   It will display a message saying IntelliSense is unavailable for C     CLI  if it doesn t support it   The message will look like this -

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Have you tried Visual Assist X   Sort of lights up the VS editor

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I came across over the following post   http   blogs msdn com b raulperez archive 2010 03 19 c-intellisense-options aspx  The issue is that the  IntelliSense  option in c   is disabled   This link explains about the IntelliSense database configuration and options    After enabling the database you must close and reopen visual studio for autocomplete use  ctrl   space

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Goto    Tools    Options    Text Editor    C C      Advanced    IntelliSense  Change    Member List Commit Aggressive to True

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Start writing  then just press CTRL SPACE and there you go

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Include the class that you are using Within your text file  then intelliSense will know where to look when you type within your text file  This works for me    So it   s important to check the Unreal API to see where the included class is so that you have the path to type on the include line  Hope that makes sense

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It s enabled by default  Probably you just tried on an expression that failed to autocomplete   In case you deactivated it somehow    you can enable it in the Visual Studio settings  Just browse to the Editor settings  then to the subgroup C C   and activate it again    should read something like  List members automatically  or  Auto list members   sorry  I have the german Visual Studio    Upon typing something like std  cout  a dropwdownlist with possible completitions should pop up

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VS is kinda funny about C   and IntelliSense   There are times it won t notice that it s supposed to be popping up something   This is due in no small part to the complexity of the language  and all the compiling  or at least parsing  that d need to go on in order to make it better   If it doesn t work for you at all  and it used to  and you ve checked the VS options  maybe this can help

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ctrl   space  will open C C   autocomplete

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All the answers were missing Ctrl-J  which enables and disables autocomplete

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