The Source Outliner tool is a Visual Studio extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them inside the editor.
Source Outliner enables you to perform the following tasks:
- Navigate a C# or Visual Basic source file in a tree view.
- Navigate to an item via the keyboard or the mouse.
- Filter the tree based on the code element name.
- Filter the tree based on the code element type.
The following steps walk you through using this tool.
- Start Visual Studio.
- Open your favorite VB.NET or C# solution or create a new one.
- Select the ‘Source Outliner Power Toy’ menu item under View.OtherWindows menu group.
- The Source Outliner tool window docks to the left side of the Visual Studio window next to the Code Editor window.
- Click a method or variable name in Source Outliner and the code associated with what you clicked displays near the top of the Code Editor window.
- You can use the ‘Filter by Type’ to filter different types that you would like to view.