Disable intellisense in Visual Studio 8
July 10th, 2009
Hi,
The studio I work in use Visual Assist which is a far better version of Intellisense in my opinion. However Intellisense is on by default on Visual Studio and does a far bit of processing in the background, especially when there are significant project changes. So I’ve needed to disable intellisense for this project, to do so is trivial really.
Close your active solution in Visual Studio.
Navigate to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcpackages (you may need to find the right directory on your machine depending on where Program FIles are…)
Remove or rename(a better option in case you need it again)
Feacp.dll
Intellisense will now be disabled.
FWIW, this also breaks the Macro facility in Visual Studio; Macros will fail to compile or execute. Use with caution.
Really? I’ve been working on a project that heavily used macros for the last year with intellisense disabled and they worked fine for me.
The entire application would have bombed if macros failed to execute!
Hmmm. Must be more to it than that. Several coworkers and I had VS’s macro compiling break until we replaced feacp.dll.