intellisense for previously declared variables and constants

I am using MSVS C++ Express 2008. Right now my intellisense only works for objects that have methods or argu开发者_开发问答ments in a method. Is it possible to set it where it detects declared constants and varibles that are within scope. Thanks

It should work when you hover over a constant, or any variable for that matter. It should show you the definition. I'm not sure if there are any feature differences between the Express and "real" versions, but I don't believe so.

Some things to try:

1. Do a rebuild of the solution.
2. Restart VS.
3. There is a file in your solution root directory with an ".ncb" extension. Delete it and restart VS. This forces VS to rebuild the Intellisense database.

Intellisense is notoriously flakey...