Professional Visual Studio® 2008

Chapter 16. IntelliSense and Bookmarks

One thing that Microsoft has long been good at is providing automated help as you write your code. Older versions of Visual Basic had a limited subset of this automated intelligence known as IntelliSense, but with the introduction of Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft firmly established the technology throughout the whole application development environment. In Visual Studio 2008 it is even more pervasive than before, so much so that it has been referred to as IntelliSense Everywhere.

This chapter illustrates the many ways in which IntelliSense helps you write your code. Among the topics covered are code snippets, the use of XML commenting in your own projects to create more IntelliSense information, and other features as simple as variable-name completion. You will also learn how to set and use bookmarks in your code for easier navigation.