Code snippets and intellisense popup size

Question

I'm using Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition

1. Can I use code snippets?
2. How do I make the intellisense popup bigger (in previous versions I just dragged the border, it doesn't work now)?

Answer 1

Hi PiotrSiodmak,

As far as I know, Visual C++ does not support Code Snippets. And in VS 2010, the size of intellisense box can't be resized as VS 2008 does.

Best Regards,
Nancy

---

Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
Welcome to the All-In-One Code Framework! If you have any feedback, please tell us.

Answer 2

Code Snippets (as a feature) is not available in C++, but you can always just open other files and cut and paste.  Intellisense was rewritten for 2010 so there are some differences.  It's much better, but you're right, you can't resize any longer.  However, the information is much more nicely displayed and accessible.

Tom

Answer 3

Hi

Thanks for your answers and sorry for not replying earlier.
About the popup: it's not that it's less helpful (although sometimes having more information displayed at once is much needed), it's the fact that it shows some and a half row - it cuts the last shown row in half. That's so annoying for someone with a severe "code OCD" like me.
As for the snippets: my code to copy and paste still requires replacing so many symbols that it's too unproductive. I tried doing it with a new item wizard but I can't seem to find a decent documentation on this thing (does the wizard UI use an internal HTML renderer or currently installed IE? If it's internal then what are the standards? What scripting objects are avilable? What's in Common.js? How do I add a file from template? How do I create multipaged wizards? etc.).

Answer 4

Perhaps there are alternative to Code Snippets (those for C#)?

Has anyone tried any alternative solutions, e.g with macros?