- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- About the Authors
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Part I: Introducing Visual Studio 2015
- Chapter 1. A Quick Tour of Visual Studio 2015
- Chapter 2. The Visual Studio IDE
- Chapter 3. The .NET Languages
- What’s New in C# 6.0 and VB 14
- Language Primer
- Language Features
- Infer a Variable’s Data Type Based on Assignment
- Create an Object and Initialize Its Values (Object Initializers)
- Define a Collection and Initialize Its Values
- Creating an Instance of a Nonexistent Class
- Add Methods to Existing Classes (Extension Methods)
- Add Business Logic to Generated Code (Partial Methods)
- Access and Query Data Using the .NET Languages
- Write Simple Unnamed Functions Within Your Code (Lambda Expressions)
- Splitting an Assembly Across Multiple Files
- Working with XML Directly Within Your Code (VB Only)
- Removing Unused Arguments from Event Handlers (VB Only)
- Creating an Automatically Implemented Property
- Dropping the Underscore in VB for Line Continuation
- Working with Dynamic Languages/Objects
- Covariance and Contravariance
- Asynchronous Programming
- The .NET Framework
- Summary
- Part II: An In-Depth Look at the IDE
- Chapter 4. Solutions and Projects
- Chapter 5. Browsers and Explorers
- Chapter 6. Introducing the Editors and Designers
- Part III: Working with the Visual Studio Tools
- Chapter 7. Working with Visual Studio’s Productivity Aids
- Chapter 8. Testing Code
- Chapter 9. Refactoring Code
- Chapter 10. Debugging Code
- Chapter 11. Deploying Code
- Chapter 12. Developing Applications in the Cloud with Windows Azure
- Chapter 13. Working with Databases
- Part IV: Extending Visual Studio
- Part V: Building Web Applications
- Chapter 17. Building Modern Websites with ASP.NET 5
- Chapter 18. Using JavaScript and Client-Side Frameworks
- Chapter 19. Building and Consuming Services with Web API and WCF
- Part VI: Building Windows Client Apps
- Chapter 20. Building Windows Forms Applications
- Chapter 21. Building WPF Applications
- Chapter 22. Developing Office Business Applications
- Part VII: Creating Mobile Apps
- Chapter 23. Developing Windows Store Applications
- Chapter 24. Creating Windows Phone Applications
- Chapter 25. Writing Cross-Platform Mobile Applications with Apache Cordova
- Index
- Code Snippets
Browsing Objects
The Object Browser consists of a toolbar and three different panes: an objects pane, a members pane, and a description pane. Again, the similarity here to the Class View window is obvious. The toolbar, objects pane, and members pane function identically to the Class View objects pane and the members pane. You click down through the tree view to view each object’s members; the toolbar aids in navigating deep trees by providing a Forward and Back button. Figure 5.15 shows the Object Browser in action.
The hierarchical relationships, icons, and actions possible within the panes are the same (therefore, we won’t rehash them here). The description pane, however, is a new concept.
Note
You can quickly access the MSDN help topic for any given object or member by selecting an item in the members pane and then pressing the F1 key.
Description Pane
When an item is selected in either the Object Browser’s objects pane or the members pane, the description pane provides detailed information about the selected item. The data provided is quite extensive and includes the following:
The name of the selected object
The name of the parent of the selected object
Code comments and inline help associated with the selected object
Where possible, the description pane embeds hyperlinks within the data that it displays to enable you to easily navigate to related items. For example, a declared property of type string might show the following description:
public string SystemContextId { set; get; }
Member of Contoso.Fx.Integration.Specialized.ContextToken
Figure 5.16 shows how this property will display within the description pane. Note the use of hyperlinking: clicking the string identifier navigates to the string data type within the Object Browser window. Similarly, clicking the Contoso.Fx.Integration.ContextToken hyperlink navigates the browser to the class definition for the ContextToken class.
Tip
You can click an assembly in the Objects pane and quickly add it as a reference to the current project by clicking the Add to References button located on the Object Browser’s toolbar.
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