Intellisense Frustration (from c# to c++)

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Using VS2015. I still cannot find it (if it exists) but in c# whenever you start typing, not only will the intellisense pop up but it will also auto select (but not commit) the best guess. This means that you can hit ENTER at any time and it will commit what is highlighted.

In C++ it will pop up but not auto highlight the best guess:

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You have to manually hit the down arrow one time and then hit enter. It doesn’t sound like a big deal but this does save a lot of time for us full time programmers!

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Have you tried the following?

Tools → Options → Text Editor → C++ → Advanced → (Intellisense section) set “Member List Commit Aggressive” to True?

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That’s it!

Thanks YOU!

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Hey,
for people who is having problems with IntelliSense, my problem might help some others.
My IntelliSense was working on x86 but not x64

I tried everything to solve it but what had really happened was that I had overwritten the file “C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MSBuild\v4.0\ Microsoft.Cpp.x64.user.props”
with the content from a colleague to build other project.

I added these lines which are the ones which screwed up my x64 Intellisense…

<ItemDefinitionGroup>
<ClCompile>
<AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
<\AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
<\ClCompile>
<\ItemDefinitionGroup>

So all I had to do was to REMOVE THEM