Eclipse's Ctrl+click in Visual Studio?

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shoosh picture shoosh · Oct 3, 2008 · Viewed 36.3k times · Source

After working for a few days with Eclipse Java I totally got addicted to pressing Ctrl and clicking on an identifier to go to its definition. Since then I've been looking for a way to achieve this in Visual Studio as well.

I realize VS has right click, Go to definition, and that F12 does the same. I also realize that Visual Assist does something similar with Alt + G. Yet none of these are as perfect as Ctrl + click.

I've actually tried my luck for a few hours trying to write a VS plugin to do it but didn't get anywhere in the time frame I thought reasonable for this.

Does anyone know how this could be achieved? A ready plugin? A macro of some kind?

Answer

splintor picture splintor · Jun 16, 2010

If you use Visual Studio 2010, you can use the free Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools from Microsoft to achieve this.

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