Visual Studio 2013 Intellisense is REALLY slow

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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VAX is great. But it doesn’t help after VS2013.3 which seems to be broken.
I disabled Intellisense completely but it still pops up randomly when I change my class and hangs forever. Seems like it doesn’t even give a **** about me disabling it.

Screw you, MS. I guess I stay on 2013.2

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There’s probably something wrong with your installation, because I’m using VAX without an issue with 2013.3, the intellisense also haven’t come back (That shameful feature should even be disabled by default for C++ IMO)

Thank god for guys at Whole Tomato, because using only VS I personally would become crazy in a matter of days when working with big C++ code bases like UE4.

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It’s not installation issue. I got the same issue on 3 different machines. That annoying “please wait while intellisense and browsing information are updated” pops up and blocks IDE completely even if Intellisense is off.
Everything was fine on 2013.1, there was something similar on 2013.2 on one of the machines once but never came back after reinstall.
I hope 2013.4 will fix it, I didn’t try CTP1 yet though.

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Best 100 bucks I’ve spent in a long long time!

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VS intellisense is really slow and bugged, agree. So, instead of using “Find References”, i am using the following:

  1. Shift+Ctrl+F and search in Current Project, match whole word.
  2. I am mostly using “Class View” for searching types and functons declarations/implementations, because intellisense F12 always cant find implementations, only declarations.
  3. Sometimes if absolutely nessesary i am using VisualAssist->Find References.

PS: now i am installing CTP1, hope this will help a little, at least i hope there will not be long rescan every hour.

UPD: i installed CTP1, it did not improve intellisense find references and F12, but “prescan” and “rescan” seams really cool, after install i had long “initial prescan”, but after reopenning project it doesnt rescan, thats cool, i think there will not be “per hour” rescan too, thats perfect, that was really annoying.

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This seems to have helped me as well! Thanks!