Visual Studio 2017 Display method references

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How can I display the references on top of a method declaration  I looked for it in the Visual Studio properties  but could not find it

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In previous posts I have read that this feature IS available on VS 2015 community if you FIRST install SQL Server express (free) and THEN install VS. I have tried it and it worked. I just had to reinstall Windows and am going thru the same procedure now and it did not work... so will try again :). I know it worked 6 months ago when I tried.

-Ed

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In Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise you can enable CodeLens by doing this  Tools   Options   Text Editor   All Languages   CodeLens This is not available in the Community Edition

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No luck with Code lens in Community editions   Press Shift   F12 to find all references

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For anyone who is looking to enable this on the Mac version  it is not available  Developers of Visual Studio stated they will include in their roadmap

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For anyone who looks at this today after 2 years  Visual Studio 2019  Community edition as well  shows the references

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For display references on the top of method you have to enabled the CodeLens option in Visual Studio Professional and Visual Studio Enterprise  Use below steps to enabled it  1  Go to Tools and then select Options    2  Then Select Text Editor - gt  All Languages - gt  CodeLens  3  Click on check box to Enable Code Lens   Now you can see the references on the top of methods  This will not work for VS - Community Edition  Cheers

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CodeLens is not available in the Community editions  You need Professional or higher to switch it on   In VS2015  one way to  get  CodeLens was to install the SQL Server Developer Tools  SSDT  but I believe this has been rectified in VS2017   Still you can get all method reference by right clicking on the method and  Find All references

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