At the Great Lakes Area .Net users Group meeting last night, during his excellent ASP.Net tips and trick presentation, Jason Beres let us in on a dirty little trick that Visual Studio plays on VB.Net developers (not C# developers though). By default, the editor hides “advanced” properties and methods in the Intellisense.
This setting can be found in the Options dialog box. Tools Menu -> Options -> Text Editor -> Basic:
By default, Hide Advanced Members is checked. I guess the designers were trying to keep VB.Net “friendly” by hiding the complexity? How many times have you as a developer used the Intellisense to explore the options on an object? If you have, you were being shorted.