   C++ - Intelisense
  I noticed compared to C# and other languages (especially in the 2005 release of the Visual Studio) the Intellisense in the C++ IDE comes no were close to that of C# and Visual Basic. Why is this? In C# as soon as I type a letter it shows all the variables in that scope and functions making it easier to remember structs, class and, functions. In C++ only some classes and structs give me intellisense for their members and it never shows me the available variables.   
  Dunno,But, I also noticed that it takes forever to update the intelisense in C++... slows down the machine... Are you using managed C++?  If not, then I would bet that intelisense would be better in managed.  If you are, then I'm a monkeys uncle ;)   ;  basically that is because c++ intellisense is quite harder to do than c# or vb intellisense. the language is much harder to parse 'live'. just think of all the angle brackets in templates. c++ intellisense is also more likely to break in the case where the user typed too much stuff that isn't recognizable to the parser anymore. i think that's just something we have to live with. it doesn't get any better than vs2005 intellisense right now. the situation with c++/cli shouldn't differ too much, although there are some (very subtle) limitations that are not present in native which might slightly improve intellisense performance (e.g. some name length restrictions on all parameters of a given template etc).   ;  I second that VC++ 2005 intellisense is not really doing its job. If you dont have the express edition, you can try Visual Assist which is a relly helpful plugin. If like me you have express edition, then live with it :/ (since it doesnt accept any plug-in or additionnal stuff, unfortunately)Janta   