23
May
2009
One of the smaller features that has made its way into Visual Studio 2010 is Reference Highlighting. The following screenshot illustrates how all calls to the method MethodToBeCalled, as well as the method itself, have been highlighted. This means that you can easily scan up and down a file to see where this method has been called (quicker than calling Find All References or loading the new Quick Search window)
At this stage this feature doesn’t appear to work across files (ie selecting a method in one file and seeing it highlighted in other open files) or across assemblies (ie selecting a method call in the code of one assembly and seeing a highlight appear in another file from a different assembly).
The highlighting SUCKS royally. There’s no way to change the color used for the highlight and it’s so g.d. light you have to have X-Ray vision to see it.
Good f’up Microsuck.
Johnny, Dude…. no need for the abuse! Don’t forget it’s beta 1. I’d be surprised if the highlighting color isn’t in the list of items that you can control the color of when the product ships. At any rate, if you can’t see the highlighting you’re no better off than you were in VS2008. If this is your biggest complaint then I think you’re missing the big picture when it comes to VS2010.
WHy MS is a way behind? Eclipse and Notepad++ has it a long way ago.