So today I needed to go work on a .NET project in Visual Studio 2003 and found that my intellisense was not working. I tried typing even the simplest 'string.Format' and when I hit '.' no help popped up. Figuring that it was ReSharper, I uninstalled it. However, that did not solve the problem. So I repaired VS 2003. Nope. So I continued to uninstall, repair, run CCleaner, etc. Nothing seemed to fix it. Then it occurred to me that it might be something in my profile. Sure enough, I logged in as a different user and that user had intellisense.
I proceeded to clean out my %UserProfile%\Application Data, %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data and %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temp directories for anything related to VS but that still didn't fix it. Finally I came to terms with the fact that it was in the registry. I deleted the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1 key (which unfortunately holds all of my VS 2003 settings) and went back in. Sure enough it was fixed.
I'm not sure what specific key or value shut off the intellisense though. One of these days I may try to narrow it down.
Tags: Microsoft, .NET, Visual Studio
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