4.1 and beyond: Broken IntelliSense in MonoDevelop

Unity Engine
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Since I updated to Unity 4.1 (and later 4.1.1), the IntelliSense in MonoDevelop doesn’t work correctly. Not that it ever worked really well, but now its a lot worse than before.

“using UnityEngine” has a warning saying “Parser Warning: Invalid conditional define symbol ‘2’”.
And for example Collections.Generic doesn’t IntelliSense at all.
Built-in arrays of many object types has no IntelliSense for .Length and such, and will instead act as if they are single objects.

Any ideas on what to do?
Any fixes coming?

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This is still a problem. Standing by for an answer from a Unity representative.

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Bumping an unsolved issue that slows down my production speed.

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I’m getting the same issue, Looking for a fix to resolve multiple warnings.

Would be nice to address this Unity.

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I’m testing right now with the lastest version of MonoDevelop and for now it works. As a temporal solution it may work for you. Good luck :slight_smile:

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Been having this one for a while now with this one project and hadn’t been able to figure it out until now. Same parser warning thing as OP except with 9 instead of 2. Figured I’d post with this reply for others who may run into this.

Solution (in MD): “Right click the project, go to Options → Build → Compiler. You can add the constants where it says Define Symbols.”
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No idea how my ‘9’ got in there but at the end of the list of conditionals, sure enough, there it was. Sure enough, removing it set things right again :slight_smile: