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Hierarchy window

Last modified: 11 February 2024

ReSharper | Windows | Hierarchies

ReSharper | Inspect | Hierarchies

The Hierarchy window can display several types of hierarchical structures of your code:

Hierarchy of types

This view displays the hierarchy of types that includes members and the list of all subtypes and supertypes of a particular type. You can analyze the hierarchy and navigate to the declaration of any type by double-clicking it.

ReSharper: Type hierarchy. members preview

Toolbar Controls

Control

Name

Description

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Refresh

Updates window content to reflect any changes made in the code or externally.

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Base on This

A selected type becomes the root of the hierarchy tree and the tree is rebuilt accordingly. The new base type is highlighted with bold.

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Expand All/Collapse All

Expands/collapses all nodes in the current tab.

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Previous/Next


Shift+F8/F8

Navigate to the previous/next item and scrolls through the source code accordingly.

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Show Members

Hides or shows the preview pane in the position specified using the list (at the bottom or in the right part of the window).

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Export

Click this button to export the data currently displayed in the window in text format , or use the drop-down selector to export the data in an XML or HTML format. The Export Data dialog that appears will help you save the data to a file or copy it to the clipboard .

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Class Hierarchy

This tree shows all subtypes and supertypes of the center type. The center type can be located anywhere in the tree, not necessarily at the root. You can select a different center type using the Base on This button ThemedIcon.Base.Screen.(Gray).png, and the tree will be rebuilt accordingly.

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Subtypes Hierarchy

This tree shows all subtypes of the center type. The center type is positioned at the root of the tree.

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Supertypes Hierarchy

This tree shows all supertypes of the center type in ascending order (each child node is the supertype of its parent). The center type is positioned at the root of the tree.

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Implementation Hierarchy

This tree shows all descendants of the center type.

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Interface Leaves

In this mode, the hierarchy only shows derived interfaces that have classes as inheritors, and hides all intermediate interfaces that have other interfaces as inheritors.

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Show Elements From This Solution

Hides symbols from external libraries.

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Show on Diagram

Click this button to display all the types shown in the window in the type dependencies diagram view.

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Referenced Projects

Click this button to display all project and assemblies referenced by the current project.

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Referencing Projects

Click this button to display all project that reference the current project. The hierarchy is shown in ascending order (each child node is the project that reference its parent). The current project is positioned at the root of the tree.

Group by

Allows grouping items in the window by different categories.

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All Instance Members (preview pane)

Displays all instance members in the preview pane.

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Only Polymorphic Members (preview pane)

Restricts the preview pane to displaying only polymorphic members of the selected hierarchy node.

Hierarchy of projects

This view displays the hierarchy of project and assembly references for the selected project. This hierarchy includes projects and assemblies referenced by or referencing a specific project.

Hierarchy of project references

Toolbar Controls

Control

Name

Description

ThemedIcon.Refresh.Screen.(Gray).png

Refresh

Updates window content to reflect any changes made in the code or externally.

ThemedIcon.Base.Screen.(Gray).png

Base on This

A selected type becomes the root of the hierarchy tree and the tree is rebuilt accordingly. The new base type is highlighted with bold.

ThemedIcon.ExpandAll.Screen.(Gray).png ThemedIcon.CollapseAll.Screen.(Gray).png

Expand All/Collapse All

Expands/collapses all nodes in the current tab.

ThemedIcon.Up.Screen.(Gray).png ThemedIcon.Down.Screen.(Gray).png

Previous/Next


Shift+F8/F8

Navigate to the previous/next item and scrolls through the source code accordingly.

ThemedIcon.Export.Screen.(Gray).png

Export

Click this button to export the data currently displayed in the window in text format , or use the drop-down selector to export the data in an XML or HTML format. The Export Data dialog that appears will help you save the data to a file or copy it to the clipboard .

Type dependency diagram

The type dependency diagram view allows you to visually study dependencies between types in your solutions. You can add any number of types from different projects or compiled assemblies and visualize different kinds of dependencies between them. For more information, refer to Explore type dependency diagram.

Type dependency diagram

Toolbar Controls

Control

Name

Description

ThemedIcon.Refresh.Screen.(Gray).png

Refresh

Updates window content to reflect any changes made in the code or externally.

ThemedIcon.RefactorThis.Screen.(Gray).png

Allow 'Move to Folder' on drag-n-drop

Click this button to perform the Move to Folder refactoring when you drag-n-drop types on the diagram. This refactoring would move the file containing the type to the target folder, fix namespace references and change internal visibility to public if necessary.

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Undo

Click this button to revert the changes in the view (adding and removing items) step by step.

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Redo

Click this button to revert the last Undo operation.

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Export to PNG

Click this button to save the visible part of the diagram as a PNG image file.

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Filter Dependencies

With this drop-list, you can select what kinds of dependencies should be displayed between types on the diagram.

Assembly dependency diagram

The assembly dependency diagram helps you visually explore dependencies between compiled assemblies. For more information, refer to Explore assembly dependency diagram.

ReSharper: Assembly diagram

Toolbar Controls

Control

Name

Description

ThemedIcon.Undo.Screen.(Gray).png

Undo

Click this button to revert the changes in the view (adding and removing items) step by step.

ThemedIcon.Redo.Screen.(Gray).png

Redo

Click this button to revert the last Undo operation.

ThemedIcon.Export.Screen.(Gray).png

Export to PNG

Click this button to save the visible part of the diagram as a PNG image file.

CSS hierarchy

This view allows you to see the whole hierarchy of css selectors. For each selector in the hierarchy you can quickly view its definition. For more information, refer to hierarchy of CSS styles.

ReSharper: CSS hierarchy

Hierarchy of references

This view helps you explore hierarchy of references for any assembly and track down all assembly dependencies. Recursive dependencies are detected and marked with a glyph to the right of a reference entry. For more information, refer to Explore hierarchy of references.

ReSharper: References hierarchy

Window tabs

When type or style hierarchies, or type dependency graphs open in the window, they are displayed in new tabs, which show up on the left. The previously open tabs move to the right if the width of the window allows, otherwise they unload themselves saving memory - but you can always restore them by clicking the arrow that appears to the right of the tabs and clicking the required tab:

Tool window tabs

To prevent a tab from unloading, click the pin icon ThemedIcon.Pin.Screen.(Gray).png next to the tab title.

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