Re: [boost] Using Boost without confusing Intellisense

Subject: Re: [boost] Using Boost without confusing Intellisense
From: Barend Gehrels (barend_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-09 12:53:59

Hi,

9-2-2011 17:29, Matthew Chambers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use many Boost libraries, develop with MSVC (currently 2008), and 
> build both my project and its Boost dependencies with Boost.Build. The 
> one thing that's always frustrated me using boost is its tendency to 
> confuse MSVC's Intellisense. I don't know if this holds true for other 
> IDEs with an Intellisense-like capability, but heavy use of 
> boost::shared_ptr and BOOST_FOREACH in particular seem to confuse 
> Intellisense in a large project. MSVC never knows what to show when 
> dereferencing a shared_ptr and it never defines the instance variable 
> in BOOST_FOREACH.
>
> I came up with two fairly simple workarounds for this but I'm 
> interested to hear if there's a better solution. If not, I'm wondering 
> if the workarounds could go in boost itself. (...)

I had the same experience with MSVC 2005 and 2008, developing 
Boost.Geometry. We don't use shared_ptr there, and BOOST_FOREACH 
neither, but still I had this issue (it hangs forever).

Anyway, it is relatively easy to solve by turning off Intellisense 
completely...

It is described on this page:

http://geometrylibrary.geodan.nl/compiling.html

referring to:

http://bit.ly/ePGedN

Regards, Barend