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Did you know… You can use F12 in the Object Browser to go to the definition of whatever’s selected? - #222

On the context menu of both the Member Pane (right panel) and the Object Pane (left panel), you’ll see the Go To Definition command.  You can use this command to navigate directly into the code where whatever you have selected is defined (or you’ll get a nice error message).

Go To Definition

In the General Development Settings, the Edit.GoToDefinition command is bound to F12.  Pressing F12 in the image above will take us to where the bar function is defined.

where function bar() is defined in editor

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Posted: Friday, May 23, 2008 3:00 AM by saraford

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Mike Dunn said:

I think I use F12 more than F7 some days.

# May 24, 2008 2:21 AM

dan said:

Just install Resharper and be done with it.

# May 24, 2008 3:06 AM

Visual Studio Hacks said:

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. JetBrains has announced the release of the ReSharper 4.0 Beta . Hilton Giesenow has created a video titled How Do I: Add A Dialog

# May 27, 2008 7:57 AM

xjb said:

# January 6, 2009 8:52 PM
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