Missing CodeLens references count in Visual Studio Community edition 2015 and 2017

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H. Pauwelyn picture H. Pauwelyn · Oct 15, 2015 · Viewed 82.8k times · Source
  1. Is there a reason why the references count (code lens) is missing in Visual Studio Community edition?
  2. Is is possible to enable it in the options?

Here is a screenshot of Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 Community edition:

methods without code lens

Here is a screenshot of Visual Studio 2013:

methods with code lens

source: dailydotnettips.com

Answer

R. Richards picture R. Richards · Mar 2, 2016

I installed the latest SSDT preview for Visual Studio 2015 from the link below on 2 machines I have with VS 2015 Community edition (Update 1), and CodeLens started working for all my projects.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt204009.aspx

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