Hi all!
If you are familiar with R# then you probably use its powerful navigation features - sophisticated context navigation (just look at 'Navigate To' dialog) and powerful 'Go To ...' navigation. All these features make you almost forget about Solution Explorer, allowing to instantly move through your solution.
Today I'm writing about the new concept of 'Go To ...' navigation in R# 6, that will make your navigation even more precise and powerful.
To be simple, in R# 6 you can type multiple words in 'Go To ...' dialogs. In different dialogs semantics of words is different, but the main idea remains the same : now you can search something inside something inside something and so on.
Let's start with 'Go To Symbol' dialog. In this dialog words correspond with entities in your code model: namespaces, type elements (classes, structs, delegates) and type members. The words you type in a dialog match all of these entities in hierarchical order (from left to right).
You can search type members even inside namespace without typing an extra word for a type element. For example, this might be very useful in case you have a huge hierachy with a lot of clients overriding method with the same name.
Advanced users maybe know that in 5.1 version they could use a whitespace for 'tail matching'. Since in R#6 whitespace has other semantics, you can use '\' symbol for tail matching.
Another productivity hint that for me personally saves a lot of time: often you want to navigate to a type's member, but you don't know the exact method's of file's name in that class. The common behaviour in R# 5.1 would be: Go to type -> Navigate to your type -> Go to File Member -> Navigate to your member. In R# 6, since you have combos, you can just type your type's name and add a whitespace after. You will get all type members without first navigating to a type.
Combos work for external sources as well, and you can use absolutely the same features in dotPeek - new .net Decompiler from JetBrains.
'Go To Type' dialog uses the same idea, but without navigating to your type members, words correspond to namespaces and type elements.
Both in 'Go To Symbol' and 'Go To Symbol' you can use either ' ' or '.' as a delimiter. This means that these dialogs will find results by FQN.
'Go To File' dialog searches through your project model, allowing you to find files, projects and all kinds of folders inside each other. You can use ' ' or slashes ('\', '/') as a delimiters.
All of these features improve global 'Go To ...' navigation and make it even more powerful than before.
Stay tuned!
If you are familiar with R# then you probably use its powerful navigation features - sophisticated context navigation (just look at 'Navigate To' dialog) and powerful 'Go To ...' navigation. All these features make you almost forget about Solution Explorer, allowing to instantly move through your solution.
Today I'm writing about the new concept of 'Go To ...' navigation in R# 6, that will make your navigation even more precise and powerful.
To be simple, in R# 6 you can type multiple words in 'Go To ...' dialogs. In different dialogs semantics of words is different, but the main idea remains the same : now you can search something inside something inside something and so on.
Let's start with 'Go To Symbol' dialog. In this dialog words correspond with entities in your code model: namespaces, type elements (classes, structs, delegates) and type members. The words you type in a dialog match all of these entities in hierarchical order (from left to right).
You can search type members even inside namespace without typing an extra word for a type element. For example, this might be very useful in case you have a huge hierachy with a lot of clients overriding method with the same name.
Advanced users maybe know that in 5.1 version they could use a whitespace for 'tail matching'. Since in R#6 whitespace has other semantics, you can use '\' symbol for tail matching.
Another productivity hint that for me personally saves a lot of time: often you want to navigate to a type's member, but you don't know the exact method's of file's name in that class. The common behaviour in R# 5.1 would be: Go to type -> Navigate to your type -> Go to File Member -> Navigate to your member. In R# 6, since you have combos, you can just type your type's name and add a whitespace after. You will get all type members without first navigating to a type.
Combos work for external sources as well, and you can use absolutely the same features in dotPeek - new .net Decompiler from JetBrains.
'Go To Type' dialog uses the same idea, but without navigating to your type members, words correspond to namespaces and type elements.
Both in 'Go To Symbol' and 'Go To Symbol' you can use either ' ' or '.' as a delimiter. This means that these dialogs will find results by FQN.
'Go To File' dialog searches through your project model, allowing you to find files, projects and all kinds of folders inside each other. You can use ' ' or slashes ('\', '/') as a delimiters.
Stay tuned!
