Poor intellisense in Visual Studio 2010 for C++ Win32

Question

For a long time i was programming in Visual Studio 2010 in C#. Really good thing there was extensive documentation in Lntellisense. Lately i have decided to switch to C++ Win32 (which i believe is Native C++, am I right?). I have then spotted Intellisense is only showing functions' declarations (with no descriptions and with no parameter descriptions). It really makes programming hard as it is hard for me to remember all of the functions' parameters.

So the is: is there any way to make Intellisense to show documentation and parameter list descriptions for C++ win32 just like it was in C#?

If there is no such way, so is there way to provide my own XML documentation for existing win32 functions for C++? I could then write documentation for my most used functions for myself, which would be really helpful.

I have also noticed typing three slashes before function declaration does nothing (in C# it was used to write XML documentation for specified objecT). Is there any way to bring back such functionality?

Answer 1

You can try using Visual Assist X for better intellisense. It's a commercial tool (I'm not affiliated with them but I've been using it for a while). It provides features for most of the things you asked for through enhanced intellisense and macros / shortcuts.

For the most part I like it but there are some annoying issues with it that I had to learn to live with. Support is all right but every once in a while they break something that used to work before.