"My coding has become a constant dialog with IntelliSense"
Truer words could not previously have been uttered. So, “Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?” (via Hannes Pavelka). Before long we may sit down at our computers, much like the brainwashed drones of 1984, to find that Visual Studio has already started itself, generated the code we were just thinking about, and made us a latte’. Nothing left to do but press F5 and enjoy the ride.
Anyways, I have only read the part on IntelliSense this morning. If you’ve ever read any of his books, you know that Petzold has always been an advocate (at least indirectly) of understanding the code before you let some tool generate it for you. It’s amusing to see that he’s at least as addicted to IntelliSense as most programmers I know.
Personally, I think IntelliSense is coming full circle in Visual Studio 2005. Now, I can type the name of a method that does not yet exist, complete with parameters, and Studio will give me the option to generate a method stub to match the call I have just made when I press [shift + alt + f10]. That's efficient and it speeds up the process.
[edit 11/2/05: changed post title from “We Shall Prevail!”]