Stop Intellisense display timeout

Question

I'm using VS 2010 Ultimate for C++ coding, with no changes to any settings.

If I type MyClass-> Intellisense shows popup list of MyClass members. Initially the first item in the popup is highlighted, but I can single-click to move the highlight.

A "child" popup to the right of the highlighted item shows the function declaration line for the class member and any comment lines that immediately precede it in the relevant header file. Which is very helpful, thank you Microsoft.

BUT after a few seconds that "child" popup times out - sometimes when I'm still tring to read a lengthy series of comment lines from the header.

Is there any way to stop that child popup from fading?

Answer 1

The answer is in Microsoft Connect:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/328852/tooltips-in-intellisense-disappear-unwantedly

Posted by Microsoft on 4/26/2010 at 3:38 PM

Hi TimwiTerby, As Sean wrote in his previous comment, this was postponed so that we could consider it for a future version of Visual Studio. As you've noticed, we did not implement this suggestion for VS 2010. I'm sorry to hear that you're disappointed, but I hope you'll also understand that it's very rare that something is truly a one-line fix, especially when considering dev time, test costs, and risk of introducing another bug.

Thanks again for your feedback, Brittany Behrens Program Manager, VS Platform blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio

Answer 2

I'm going to go ahead and doubt that this is configurable. If it were, there would be an option in Tools::Options::Text Editor::<Language>::Intellisense, and there is none.