VS intellisense

[roxanne163]

If I try to create a single ASPX file with VB code inline using
visual studio, when I type in a control I get no list of attributes/methods when
i hit the period.

Do I need to do something special to activate this intelisense?
Im kinda new to VS so please advise
Thanks

[bplacker]

thats happened to me before, my project got corrupted somehow or something, so I had to start a new project and bring in all of my forms and what not from the other project. It could be that there is an error in the framework, or something like that. Are you working with the free express version?

[Ubermensch]

I discovered why intellisense quit / stopped working in my .net 2.0 web service. I have all the windows updates on my pc as of 8/10/2007 just to note.

I have had this happen several times in the past. Here's the scenario:

I made a new web service and added a new folder to my web service. The new folder's name was "App_Code". I added the folder in order to keep to common convention in our development environment. Consistency in development is important, except when bad things like intellisense go awry.

Now, if you are familiar with how to make a "Web Site" in .net that's a different application. When you make a project "Web Site" in .net then there is an option to make a folder called "App_Code". There is no option to make an "App_Code" folder in .net 2.0 web services when you right click on the project and select --> Add --> Add ASP.NET Folder. You will notice there is no such thing in a web service as "App_Code".

It appears what this means is .NET is confused because it notices a folder (watch the icon of the folder contains a piece of paper which is different than other regular folders in a web service) that is of a different type of application than the application you are in. With this confusion the intellisense is disabled because the UI doesn't know how to handle the new folder.

In conclusion, never put a folder in a "web service" or "web application" called "App_Code" because .NET will try to reason the application is a "web site" which in this case is not true.

What I did was remove the underscore from "App_Code" to "AppCode" and this fixed the issue. Intellisense started to work again.

The ramification of this scenario probably points to other little idiosyncrasy within .net 2.0 applications.

I hope this helps.

[Ubermensch]

thats happened to me before, my project got corrupted somehow or something, so I had to start a new project and bring in all of my forms and what not from the other project. It could be that there is an error in the framework, or something like that. Are you working with the free express version?

Hi,

The same thing happens on several machines. So, I don't think it is a corruption in .NET.

What I did was test it in a dummy project and came to the conclusions.

Thanks