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  Should newbies use IDE autocomplete (Intellisense)?  




I was having a conversation with another developer the other night about the pros and cons of Visual Studio. He was of the opinion that Intellisense reduces productivity. Of course I thought that was insane but I could be wrong. Is there any evidence to support the idea that Intellisense reduces productivity?

Your friend was probably implying that intellisense allows developers to never memorize all of the properies and methods of every type of object, which in turn reduces the speed at which they write code.

But for anyone who has ever used a type, control, class, or object with which he or she was unfamiliar, intellisense is infinitely useful in reducing wasted time due to reading through the entire class.

So, basically, according to me, your friend is generally wrong.
