A different perspective on Class Viewer in Visual Studio .NET

As I was coding away tonight I started messing around with Class Viewer in Visual Studio .NET.  Although it has some nice features (some specific to language) I stumbled across a view I hadn't seen before.  By choosing to group by type, everything is organized into subfolders according to it's kind.  Here is a snapshot:

Thus, Solution Explorer will give the the physical perspective, Class Viewer the logical. And if I double click on any type in Class Viewer (or a type member) I am taken to the file it exists in. Doesn't take much to get me excited.

2 Comments

  • Problem is, the class viewer is pretty useless, because it has the fine habbit of collapsing itself at random interfals when you alter code or go to another code file. You then have to re-open the class viewer to the node you want to view.

  • wait till you see the class designer in whidbey...even enhancing a class view to a more modeled view that synchronizes with your code and additionally can be modified which also generates the code on the fly.

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