How does IDE identify about a property/method of an object when a (dot, Auto complete) e.g variablename.ToString();

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Aug 6th, 2006
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Sonali J. Noolkar

Oct 18th, 2006

IDE uses reflection to display the list of object members to which . is applied.

Aldo John
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Sep 5th, 2008

Dear friend, Reflection is all about reading metadata from assemblies. And this metadata is generated only while compiling. IDE's intellisense works fine even before any compilation...

How it is working?? Pretty simple...They who compile and do all the hard stuff for dont know about the functions and properties you have written???
The IDE will keep track of all the functions and properties so that it can quickly display that in the intellisence window....

jsubha2009
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Jun 12th, 2010

IDE enables the property or method to be completed through Intelli Sense. It knows the classes like Forms, Buttons and their appropriate properties and methods. This it displays to the user through Coding in a particular Programming Language. Though the property or method is mentioned through intellisense it is defined differently in different programming languages like public void prodedure() or public sub procedure.