The Source Outliner PowerToy is a Visual Studio 2008 extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them with filtering inside the editor.
The Source Code Outliner PowerToy was created as a package using the Visual Studio SDK for Visual Studio 2008. For more information about VSX, visit the Visual Studio Extensibility Developer Center .
The following steps to getting started with the Source Code Outliner PowerToy:
- Install the Source Code Outliner PowerToy for Visual Studio 2008.
- Start Visual Studio 2008.
- Open a source code window for an existing source file or create a new one.
- Select the ‘Source Code Outliner Power Toy’ menu item under View.OtherWindows menu group.
- You can dock the Source Code Outliner anywhere, like 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.