Re: [boost] Using Boost without confusing Intellisense

Subject: Re: [boost] Using Boost without confusing Intellisense
From: Jarl Lindrud (jarl.lindrud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-09 17:24:13

Matthew Chambers <matt.chambers42 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 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.
> 

Intellisense is useless in many situations. The best thing to do IMO is to 
disable it completely and install Visual Assist, which has a far more competent 
code parser than Intellisense.

VS2010 has a completely reworked Intellisense implementation, but unfortunately 
it is still much slower than Visual Assist (thus adding to the general slowness 
and bloat of VS2010...).

Jarl