Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Open the documentation of a symbol

 
 
  • Gérald Barré

When writing code, you sometimes need to read the documentation for a method or class to understand how it works. IntelliSense already provides useful information, but the official docs often contain additional remarks or examples you may need. You could open a search engine and look up the method name, and if you are lucky, the first result links to the Microsoft documentation. Did you know you can open it directly from Visual Studio, at least for .NET Framework symbols?

  1. Select a symbol (class, interface, property, method, etc.)
  2. Press F1

This post is part of the series 'Visual Studio Tips and Tricks'. Be sure to check out the rest of the blog posts of the series!

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