i'm not sure if it's not a duplicate question - i thought it would be but somehow i found very little information about it on the internet. probably the keywords were at fault. anyway. the question:
there is no question finally - after revising this post a numerous times i ended up just wanting to share my story
my Visual Studio 2005 finally is not up to date, i mistakenly thought that it was SP1 looking at the .NET framework version. but i discovered it after finding the solution to what annoyed me and made me want to write this post. it's a shame, i know.
somehow IntelliSense stopped working after i mingled a bit with importing/exporting project environment options (zenburn color scheme/restore defaults). i checked and the C# IntelliSense options are in place, but it is still not working correctly.
after some searching and trying i discovered that my own classes that reside in a different library are also not working with IntelliSense - in fact after the dot only the Object methods are shown - that is Equals() and ReferenceEquals()
months earlier i had incorporated 5 different VS2005 C# projects under the same Solution - until then i had been using separate Visual Studio instances for each solution-project pair. reverting to my previous scheme of action solved the problem - opening the old solution that contained just a single project seemed to make IntelliSense start working correctly.
moreover, "unloading" the project from my current (multiple-project) solution, removing it and adding it again (Add->Existing Project) had the same effect - IntelliSense started working again.
so much time wasted
