VS2005 Intellisense help gone

Normally if you use Intellisense in VS you get a short description of what the method does (including the help on parameters). This is obviously the information provided by the XML-comments you add to the class/method/property. However, this just stopped showing up in Intellisense the last few weeks and it is starting to annoy me (even the information of the .NET framework's classes are gone).

It's standard practice for me to delete the .NCB file out of the project directory, whenever I have problems with Intellisense.

In fact, I tend to delete it when I archive the source, either daily, or at certain milestones.

Can't find any NCB files under my project files?

NCB files are used only for Visual C++ projects. You won't find them for C# or VB projects.

I'm afraid I have no idea what's causing your problem.

Yeah, I mostly work in C++, so I don't have any answers for you either.

But you might be interested in two blog entries I found useful in understanding how C# Intellisense works on VS2005:
[When capabilities don't meet requirements]
[Very high cpu utilization on idle]


As for specifically debugging your Intellisense problems (for VB or C#), well, obviously there are ways of disabling intellisense, so I would look into those. For example, you can (apparently) replace the bits that perform Intellisense with your own, or third party ones.

The other thing to note is that each of the languages appear to have their own Intellisense backends... good fun...