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Navigate To Metadata View

Last modified: 21 July 2022

ReSharper | Navigate | Navigate To | Metadata View

Alt+` | Metadata View (ReSharper_NavigateToMetadataView)

This command allows you to navigate to signatures of types and methods reconstructed from metadata of library symbols. Metadata View is shown in the editor as a partly reconstructed source file, in read-only mode. All relevant ReSharper's navigation commands are available in the this view.

The command becomes available when you invoke Navigate To on a library symbol in your source code and on decompiled sources. You can invoke this command from the Solution Explorer, from the File Structure window and other tool windows.

ReSharper: Metadata view of a library symbol
Navigating to metadata view of a library symbol

If the target symbol has XML documentation comments, they are included in the decompiled sources.

This command is not available if the Default Visual Studio Navigation is selected in the Tools | External Sources page of ReSharper options. To make it available, select any other option in this group.

This feature is supported in the following languages and technologies:

The instructions and examples given here address the use of the feature in C#. For details specific to other languages, see corresponding topics in the ReSharper by language section.