Error detection Visual Studio 2010

Question

I just downloaded visual studio 2010 professional and was surprised that error correction does not seem to work. I have already checked under

Tools -> Options -> TextEditor -> C/C++ -> Advanced but everything seems ok. Error detection disabled is set to FALSE.

I want VS to autodetect error - in the same way as misspellings are detected in Eclipse For instance

  cout // get error notification if I omitt the namespace std
  cour // oups, wrong keystroke. Underline immediately

and so on ...

Answer 1

I think you have to hit F5 or Build project. VS2010 is very sluggish sometimes.

Answer 2

It helps to re-build the entire solution sometimes. I've noticed that occasionally, Visual Studio can end up with corrupt debug files. Re-building the entire solution usually fixes the corrupt files.

Answer 3

Rebuild whole solution. VS 2010 is not very good release of that IDE. I suggest migrating to VS 2012 or VS 2013.