Visual Studio 2019 doesn't display the complete list of class methods

Question

After update to Visual Studio 2019 I had seen the problem. In context menu(when I write. or -> after class object) with list of class methods I don't see all methods. But I can manually write name of method and it's ok. For example, std::shared_ptr hasn't method get() in context menu, but I can write of the method manually. Why Visual Studio doesn't display all methods?

Answer 1

• First ensure that your code do compile. If you have errors before in your file (or included headers) like an extra }, IntelliSense might not works.
• If you open large solution or do a lot of change, it can take some time before the IntelliSense database get up-to-date.
• If you always have the same problem, then make a project that reproduce the problem and report it to Microsoft using Report problem tool. Complaining here won't help improve Visual Studio.
• Also ensure that you explicitly include appropriate headers and see if it fix the problem.

While I don't use sdt::shared_ptr often, I have no problem seeing the get() method for std::unique_ptr .

Obviously, if you use -> operator, the target class should not be an imcomplete type for IntelliSense to works.

Presently, IntelliSense is limited with function like std::make_unique as it seems to only look top level declaration and as such is not able to figure out available constructors.