VS2010 intellisense outside scope, like SharpDevelop/Netbeans

Is there a way of showing intellisense 开发者_StackOverflowoutside the current visible scope like for example Netbeans does in Java, and SharpDevelop?

To clarify: in SharpDevelop, say you need the class GZipStream, start typing and when the intellisense list empties, press ctrl+space, which completes the class. I like this behaviour when I forgot the exact class name. Is there such a function?

Thanks.

No, there is nothing available in a default installation of Visual Studio to do that. The closest thing is the "Show Smart Tag" command (Ctrl+.) which enables you to automatically add a using statement, but you have to type the full name of the class. If you type GZipStream and then hit Ctrl+., Visual Studio will suggest the namespace System.IO.Compression to add to the usings.

ReSharper does have this functionality. Ctrl+Space will autocomplete within the current scope, and Ctrl+Alt+Space will autocomplete within any scope, even if the namespace of the class being autocompleted is not currenlty imported.