How does Visual Studio Intellisense work?

Question

Can someone shed some light on exactly how intellisense works in Visual Studio?

Answer 1

Here is an MSDN article . It discusses features specific to the theme language, settings when they are not available, and a number of other topics.

Answer 2

The secret to intellisense is Build Providers that run in the background. This article will shed more light on this topic:

http://aspalliance.com/1102_Creating_a_Custom_BuildProvider_in_ASPNET_20

Hope this helps,

Answer 3

Background compilation, really. Visual Studio constantly compiles your code as you type them, with less softness than the standard compiler, since your code is not yet complete. Please note that in addition to adding a new member to the class when they are added, it also immediately detects errors in your code. If you did this before VS 2008 SP1, you would rather envy VB camp