| Serzer | download for Visual Studio 2022 | |
| download for Visual Studio 2017 | ||
| download for Visual Studio 2015 |
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This is an extension for use with Microsoft Visual Studio. With just a few keystrokes, it helps you to quickly find and navigate to your identifers within a source code file. - I'll show an example of its primary use. - Then we'll look at more of its options. - Finally is how to install it (super easy). |
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Here is an example of what it does and how to use it. - Let's say you are in visual studio and you have your class file open. - You know you have a method with the text "Freeze" in it somewhere. - You want to find which one you want, and navigate to it. You would start with the shortcut Alt + J to bring up the serzer dialog (or alternately it is available from the menu, more on that later): The focus of the cursor is in the search box up top, so you can start typing in your search text as soon as it opens. Here we type in "freez", and the list gets narrowed down to any matching results: At this point if you see the item you want, you can use the arrow keys (without having to put focus in the list!) to arrow up or down to select the item you want. Here we have arrowed down to select the last line: Now you just press the Enter key. The dialog will close, the cursor will be on the line with the item you choose, and the page will be scrolled so that the item is visible to you. (Alternative to pressing Enter, yes you can use the mouse to hover over the list and either double-click a row, or, you can click the ok button.) |
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The above is a quick example of use, but it has more options available to help you find things. If we look at the above picture, at the bottom of the dialog, there is a section called "Search for these classifications", with "All" being checked. If we uncheck "All" and instead check "Methods", then the list will be pared down to just methods. This next picture shows this example: All the other checkboxes are pretty much self-explanatory. |
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The install is very easy. After you download and unzip the file, you will have a .vsix file. First close any visual studios you may have open, and then double-click the .vsix file. (Serzer2022.vsix for Visual Studio 2022, Serzer2017.vsix for Visual Studio 2017, or Serzer2015.vsix for Visual Studio 2015). You will see a dialog similar to this: Just click the install button, and then you will see a dialog similar to this: That's it! Now you can open visual studio, and open one of your class files. Like I said earlier you can open it with Alt + J, but if you want to open it with the menu, it should be under Tools > serzer. I hope you find this tool useful. :) |