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FrankP Senior Member Offline Posts: 251 Joined: Oct 19^th, 2011	VS 2017 - Tab in intellisense list does not auto complete Mar 17^th, 2017 at 9:32pm	Print Post
	I'm having some difficulty with autocomplete in VS2017. Entering 'int leftval = ana' brings up an autocomplete list, but selecting from this list and pressing TAB does not properly enter the selected completion onto the line. Frank
	« Last Edit: Mar 17^th, 2017 at 9:50pm by Tim@Visual Micro »

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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: VS 2017 - Tab in intellisense list does not auto complete Reply #1 - Mar 17^th, 2017 at 9:51pm	Print Post
	Hi, We just feed visual studio with source code locations then it is entirely responsible for C++ intelliisense. Its worth asking on the visual studio / ms connect site. Thanks


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FrankP Senior Member Offline Posts: 251 Joined: Oct 19^th, 2011	Re: VS 2017 - Tab in intellisense list does not auto complete Reply #2 - Mar 17^th, 2017 at 11:12pm	Print Post
	Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 9:51pm: Hi, We just feed visual studio with source code locations then it is entirely responsible for C++ intelliisense. Its worth asking on the visual studio / ms connect site. Thanks Yes, I posted there as well. It does seem to work correctly for a brand-new Windows Forms (.NET) project, however Frank


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: VS 2017 - Tab in intellisense list does not auto complete Reply #3 - Mar 17^th, 2017 at 11:29pm	Print Post
	A c++ win32 console project might be a closer match but at a guess I suspect that intellisense inside a class works better than not. I have previously noticed that their refactoring doesn't work so well in non-class based code. If it annoys you could fool it by wrapping code in a dummy class using #if _MSC_VER _MSC_VER is only defined when editing code in Visual Studio so the Arduino build will ignore any code inside "#if _MSC_VER" It's a bit of a messy solution, but it's all I can think of.


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FrankP Senior Member Offline Posts: 251 Joined: Oct 19^th, 2011	Re: VS 2017 - Tab in intellisense list does not auto complete Reply #4 - Mar 23^rd, 2017 at 3:47pm	Print Post
	Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Mar 17^th, 2017 at 11:29pm: A c++ win32 console project might be a closer match but at a guess I suspect that intellisense inside a class works better than not. I have previously noticed that their refactoring doesn't work so well in non-class based code. If it annoys you could fool it by wrapping code in a dummy class using #if _MSC_VER _MSC_VER is only defined when editing code in Visual Studio so the Arduino build will ignore any code inside "#if _MSC_VER" It's a bit of a messy solution, but it's all I can think of. My solution was just to go back to VS2015CE, where the intellisense processing works fine.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: VS 2017 - Tab in intellisense list does not auto complete Reply #5 - Mar 23^rd, 2017 at 4:04pm	Print Post



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