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Python Tools for Visual Studio

You're reading from  Python Tools for Visual Studio

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783288687
Pages 122 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Navigating code with ease


Visual Studio provides lots of features to speed up the process of code navigation; at the same time, these features allow Visual Studio to have a streamlined coding process with a more holistic view of the project. This is particularly useful when you need to switch to a module to see the actual implementation or to update some parts of it, even when it is located somewhere else in the project. Some of the most important features for code navigation are reachable from the context menu in the coding panel:

As shown in the preceding screenshot, when the cursor is over a method and the contextual menu is opened, the command Go To Definition can be found. The Go To Definition command moves the view to the implemented code of the method inside the referenced module.

Another useful debugging function is the Find All References command (the Shift + F12 shortcut). It shows all the points inside the project where the method is used:

The result of the execution of the Find...

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