Why does Silverlight 4 Tools only give partial intellisense?

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I finally got Silverlight 4 Toolkit installed , referenced and working after the difficulty of finding the right namespace described in this question.

But intellisense doesn't work fully: after I type "tk:", it doesn't pop up the various controls I have available, but if I type a control name out, e.g. DockPanel, then it works, as shown below. It will even give me intellisense after I type tk:DropPanel, which is odd.

How can I get intellisense to work in all cases for the Silverlight 4 Toolkit?

I can imagine I need another namespace, but this site says that this reference:

is now all you need (and will be automatically used by both Visual Studio and Blend)

alt text http://www.deviantsart.com/upload/q02bav.jpg

Here is a screenshot from Silverlight 3 Toolkit intellisense which has always worked well in both vs2008 and web dev express 2008:

alt text http://www.deviantsart.com/upload/196ufid.jpg

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Maybe you can't get full intellisense? I've noticed the same kind of behaviour from VS2008, often you won't get intellisense after typing the namespace prefix. - slugster
It has always worked for me well in Silverlight 3 Toolkit, I posted a screenshot of it above. - Edward Tanguay
I have the same issue with the toolkit and sometimes, the XAML editor in general. No rhyme or reason for it, just doesn't always trigger the intellisense window. It happened after I installed the toolkit though. - Jeff Yates

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Confirmed.

This appears to be an issue with the Silverlight Toolkit assemblies, as this does work for the SDK assemblies.

Print Screen http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/9004/noitellisensetoolkit.png

If I were you I'd file a bug up on connect @ Microsoft Connect

In the meanwhile, I'd recommend considering using Resharper to supply your Visual Studio intellisense as using the Ctrl+Space key combination in resharper does provide intellisense at this point.