How to show code outline in Visual Studio?

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Alan picture Alan · Sep 25, 2010 · Viewed 79.7k times · Source

This kind of stuff exists in Eclipse:

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But I've not found it in Visual Studio yet. Is there such a window to show code outline at all?

I tried both Document Outline and Class View windows. The Class View is close, but it only shows class information, can it come up with function info also?

Answer

leoly picture leoly · Mar 12, 2014

One great plugin for VS is CodeMaid. It is powerful and it is open source! You can also sort your methods within the CodeMaid Spade view.

Here is a screenshot.

Code outline

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