Hi, 9-2-2011 17:29, Matthew Chambers wrote:
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.
I came up with two fairly simple workarounds for this but I'm interested to hear if there's a better solution. If not, I'm wondering if the workarounds could go in boost itself. (...)
I had the same experience with MSVC 2005 and 2008, developing Boost.Geometry. We don't use shared_ptr there, and BOOST_FOREACH neither, but still I had this issue (it hangs forever). Anyway, it is relatively easy to solve by turning off Intellisense completely... It is described on this page: http://geometrylibrary.geodan.nl/compiling.html referring to: http://bit.ly/ePGedN Regards, Barend