vs2019 downloading Intellisense Index

Question

I am on VS 2019 Enterprise. Just updated about two weeks ago.

Background tasks are forever showing "Downloading Intellisense index for nuget.org"

I am behind a firewall, so connecting to nuget.org for anything is not going to happen.

Is there anyway to disable downloading this intellisense index?

Answer 1

Create an DWORD (32-bit) value called Enabled and set it to 0 under:

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\16.0_6cf1d688\Roslyn\Features\SymbolSearch

The 'Roslyn\Features\SymbolSearch' keys have to be created as well. The '16.0_6cf1d688' version number might be different on your machine.