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I am curious if VS2013 has the possibility to make it's intellisense auto-complete a little more effective.

I am used to have classes like MyClassInCamelCase and MyClassAgainInCamelCase even MyClassYetAgainInCamelCase. The way intellisense works for me is that I type My and I get a list of the 3 possible classes that match this word. But things will be a lot easier if I could make it like a command prompt and hit some special key that will autocomplete the word until the next CamelCase word, so I could get "My", then "MyClass" and then the next character I type can define a unique word (or just hit ; for example and auto-complete the current selected word on the list).

Also, the possibility to navigate between CamelCase words will be of great help.

Does anyone knows if this is a hidden feature or something? Or if there are external plug-ins that can make this possible?

Michel Feinstein
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This might not directly answer your question, but note that with camel-cased type names, you can do better than to start typing the beginning of a type name (My):

Typing an enclosed part of the name:

  • Again will suggest MyClassAgainInCamelCase and MyClassYetAgainInCamelCase.
  • Yet will suggest just MyClassYetAgainInCamelCase.

Typing just the capitalized letters:

  • MCY will suggest MyClassYetAgainInCamelCase.

Both of these shortcuts can be combined, btw.

stakx - no longer contributing
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I think the hotkey combination is Ctrl + Space to open Intelisense, than Tab, Enter or Space to insert. There is a complete word option in the Intelisense settings, check if that's toggled on.

ventsyv
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