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I'm just wondering if anyone else here is having a pain with IntelliSense being utterly slow on VS2017, I tried most of the possible solutions from stackoverflow, but they only helped temporarily. I'm also curious if they fixed it in newer versions. I have something over 10k lines of code in the C++ project, and it appears it's too much for it to handle. I might consider VS 2022 for a new project if they fixed it.
 
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I have upgraded to VS 2022 64bit. I would upgrade if possible due to VS2017 only being 32bit.
 
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Mindweaver said:
I have upgraded to VS 2022 64bit. I would upgrade if possible due to VS2017 only being 32bit.
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How is IntelliSense doing though, any better? Is it still so slow?
 
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Why the actual fuck are you still using VS2017 in 2024... VS2022 is already 2 years old FFS. Just upgrade for the love of all that is holy.
 
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Why the actual fuck are you still using VS2017 in 2024... VS2022 is already 2 years old FFS. Just upgrade for the love of all that is holy.
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Project was originally created using VS2013, even when switching to VS2017, because I needed newer functions (<filesystem> (C++ '17) header for example), I had some problems with the deprecated functions I used previously with VS2013. Why exactly should I possibly go over that again for no reason? Do you think it's as simple as updating your common-day app? The topic here is IntelliSense engine performance in newer versions. Do you have anything on-topic to add?
 
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Project was originally created using VS2013, even when switching to VS2017, because I needed newer functions (<filesystem> header for example), I had some problems with the deprecated functions I used previously with VS2013. Why exactly should I possibly go over that again for no reason? Do you think it's as simple as updating your common-day app? The topic here is IntelliSense engine performance in newer versions. Do you have anything on-topic to add?
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Yes... that I use VS2022 for my job and have no problems for it, and that it's leagues better than 2019 which is itself leagues better than 2017. I'm doing C# not C/C++ dev though, fuck unmanaged code.

And if you're using deprecated functions that's your fault. Don't do that, update your code to the least version early and often, then you never have to worry about things being out of date.
 
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Yes... that I use VS2022 for my job and have no problems for it, and that it's leagues better than 2019 which is itself leagues better than 2017. I'm doing C# not C/C++ dev though, fuck unmanaged code.

And if you're using deprecated functions that's your fault. Don't do that, update your code to the least version early and often, then you never have to worry about things being out of date.
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I see no reason to upgrade to a newer version at this time as I'm not missing out on any new features added in the newer versions that I may require for this code, my program does what it's supposed to. That's why I explicitly mentioned 'new projects' in OP. Only thing I can gain at this moment are project incompatibility issues, I'm not going to update 'just' to have the latest version of VS installed. I might get VS2022+ for a newer project.
 
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Night said:
How is IntelliSense doing though, any better? Is it still so slow?
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Yes, it feels much snapper. I mean 2019 was better, but I wouldn't use either over vb2022.

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I see no reason to upgrade to a newer version at this time as I'm not missing out on any new features added in the newer versions that I may require for this code, my program does what it's supposed to. That's why I explicitly mentioned 'new projects' in OP. Only thing I can gain at this moment are project incompatibility issues, I'm not going to update 'just' to have the latest version of VS installed. I might get VS2022+ for a newer project.
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Moving from a 32bit version to 64bit version should benefit you the most on a large project.
 
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