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