Restrictions on installing extensions or add-ins in Visual Studio 2010 Express

Take a look at this article. In summary from above article: The Express SKUs only support installation of extensions that are classified as Templates (or Template Wizards) and Controls. The Express SKUs do not support tool extensions. Which is anything that doesn’t fall into one of the other categories (Template or Control). VSIX files are … Read more

No IntelliSense for C++/CLI in Visual Studio 2010?

You are correct. Unfortunately it has been dropped. You can check this opened issue on Microsoft’s Connect website. I’ll just quote them for the sake of the answer: Unfortunately in this release we had to cut the intellisense support for C++/CLI due to time constraints. If you want to get some intellisense like quick info … Read more