A
technology invented by
Microsoft that essentially entails the software trying to sense a user's intentions and react to them.
Intellisense is actually a fairly general term, which refers to a slew of features--for example, in
Internet Explorer 5.0, it refers to the browser's
auto-completion of typed
URLs and
auto-correction of
typos in URLs.
The term is probably best known as the feature of the
Visual Studio products which displays
symbol information as one writes
code; for instance, when writing a function call, the entire function's parameter list will be displayed in a
tool tip, with selectable
constants in
comboboxes.
Ironically, Microsoft's Intellisense is missing one of the world's earliest (and best) Intellisense technologies:
tab completion.