OS reinstall and still have VS.NET 2005 ASP.NET Intellisense issues

August 26, 2006 @ 12:20 am

I just went through a new Vista pre-RC1 installation today and one of the first things I did is install Visual Studio 2005 on this machine. If you’ve been following this blog you know that I’d run into a few issues here and there. The most annoying one is that Visual Studio 2005 and the ASP.NET CodeBeside editor does not seem to want to give me IntelliSense on controls defined in the HTML markup.

The steps are simple. I basically don't get CodeBeside Intellisense if I'm in the .cs editor (or .vb editor for that matter):

Open a CodeBehind page (a .cs file) – nothing
Open the .ASPX page in HTML Source mode – nothing
Open the .ASPX page in Design view, switch back to the .cs file – now it works

A few people at Microsoft double checked this issue previously and mentioned that they couldn’t duplicate that so I chalked that up to some configuration issue on my end, but now I see the same exact behavior again with a completely fresh OS install.

Bummer – I was hoping this would be taken care of. Hopefully somebody at Microsoft will follow up with this – I’ll re-post this on the Connect site as well.

Little more info:

Vista Build 5536 – brand new install, VS installed second
Dell Inspiron 9400 Dual Core (maybe a dual processor issue?)
nVidia GeForce Go 7800 (you never know)
Visual Studio Team Suite (C# Profile)

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re: OS reinstall and still have VS.NET 2005 ASP.NET Intellisense issues
by David M. Kean August 27, 2006 @ 11:47 am

Rick,

Do repost this quickly. We are closing on SP1 as we speak...

Regards

David

re: OS reinstall and still have VS.NET 2005 ASP.NET Intellisense issues
by Rick Strahl August 27, 2006 @ 1:13 pm

Already done...

re: OS reinstall and still have VS.NET 2005 ASP.NET Intellisense issues
by Marion Mundy September 15, 2006 @ 3:16 pm

Did you solve this problem. I have the same issue and cannot find any help.

two_much_stuff@yahoo.com

re: OS reinstall and still have VS.NET 2005 ASP.NET Intellisense issues
by Rick Strahl September 15, 2006 @ 5:17 pm

No I still have this issue and I'm finding more and more people who are having the same problem and haven't fully realized it. <s>

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by Rick Strahl's Web Log October 02, 2006 @ 4:40 am

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by Rick Strahl October 05, 2006 @ 6:02 pm

Visual Studio 2005 seems to have lost its ability to show control definitions in ASPX pages for me since I installed VS on Vista Beta 2. Otherwise this environment seems to work well, but this is quite an annoying kink.

re: OS reinstall and still have VS.NET 2005 ASP.NET Intellisense issues
by Jerome January 09, 2007 @ 1:44 pm

Did you ever get a resolution to this issue? This exact scenario you mentioned in your blog happened to me yesterday after I installed the SP 1 for VS2005. I'm still running XP though and am experiencing this issue. I've tried uninstalling the SP, VS2005 and .Net 2.0 and reinstalling them and haven't gotten the intellisense to work in the code behind file when editing from the Source HTML view.

re: OS reinstall and still have VS.NET 2005 ASP.NET Intellisense issues
by Rick Strahl January 09, 2007 @ 2:03 pm

See here:
http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/9932.aspx

It's the Microsoft Laser Mice mouse receivers on my end. There may be other hardware or software that interferes with Intellisense as well, but this is a prominent one.