When intellisense stops working…

It happens that intellisense stops working and you no longer see methods for STL containers and other classes. What is most often advised in such situation is to delete .ncb file, since this is such a huge problem, developers from Microsoft thought of fixing this issue by providing macro:

http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2007/11/19/controlling-intellisense-through-macros.aspx

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