Copy code reference to clipboard

Copy symbol name

When you invoke this command on any symbol (declaration or usage), it automatically copies its fully-qualified name to the clipboard. If you need the name or namespace only, you can choose those in the popup.

You may need the fully-qualified name of a symbol in different situations, for example, when you use reflection.

Copy XML-Doc ID

When you invoke this command within a namespace, type, or a member, you can choose XML-Doc ID from the popup to copy the XML-documentation ID of the enclosing entity. You can use this ID when referencing this entity in XML-doc comments of other symbols. For more information about the ID format, see Processing the XML File (C# Programming Guide).

For example, for the method MyMethod declared as

namespace MyNamespace
{
    class MyClass
    {
        void MyMethod(){}
    }
}

the XML-doc ID will be M:MyNamespace.MyClass.MyMethod

Copy paths and external links

You can also copy the path to the current file and line in any format. By default, there are two formats:

• Path to the current line from the solution root, for example MyProject\MyFile.cs:25, and

• If the current file is in a Git repository with GitHub as remote, you can choose to copy the GitHub URl to the file from the popup. For example: https://github.com/user/repo/blob/id/MyProject/src/MyFile.cs#L25.

  You can also make a selection before invoking this action to have the link with a highlighted selection right on GitHub.

To copy paths and links in a custom format, configure the URI patterns on the Environment | Search & Navigation | Source Browsing page of ReSharper options (Alt+R, O).

This way you can copy links to your code that will work with online code browsers such as JetBrains Upsource or Roslyn-based source browser.