Visual Studio Tips - Inlellisense not working

When you install Visual Studio 2010 you may notice that when you start writing some code in any language, intellisense may not be working as you expect from previous version of Visual Studio. What this could mean is that when you type few characters you are not being given hints and choices to auto-complete variable names or types etc. This is not a bug or anything. There is an option in Visual Studio settings that controls this behavior. For some reason, it is OFF by default. You will have to turn it on. Here are the steps that you will need to follow.

• Click on Tools > Options menu item.
• Click on Text Editors > All Languages link in left pane.
• In the right pane you will notice Statement Completion options at top. Make sure that you have those checked to enable them.

If you have already have Visual Studio 2008 or earlier installed and had this statement completion enabled, then at the time of first time launch of Visual Studio 2010, when it asks you for import of settings from previous versions of Visual Studio, then you say yes to it and then you will not see statement completion disabled.