This new intellisense filtering capability of VS 2010 is also useful for quickly finding classes and types. For example, when we type “List” to declare a variable, the editor will provide automatic filtering to show all types that have the word “List” somewhere in them (including IList<> and SortedList<> – which do not start with List):

Figure 4

This makes it much easier to find type names you can’t entirely remember – without having to resort to searching through the object browser and/or using help documentation.