Code hierarchies

Call hierarchy shows callers (supertypes) or callees (subtypes) of a function.

• To explore incoming calls, place the caret at any function. Then, from the main menu, choose ReSharper | Inspect | Incoming Calls or press and choose Incoming Calls in the Inspect This list.

• To explore outgoing calls, place the caret at any function. Then, from the main menu, choose ReSharper | Inspect | Outgoing Calls or press and choose Outgoing Calls in the Inspect This list.

In the call tracking results window, you can double-click the hierarchy entry to navigate to the corresponding call in the editor or expand any node to check out their incoming/outgoing calls.

With ReSharper, you can investigate the inheritance hierarchy of types from your solution and from referenced libraries. You can see both base types and inheritors of the selected type and navigate to any of them with a mouse click. For more information, refer to Explore type hierarchy.

ReSharper allows you to visually analyze the hierarchy of includes for a single include directive or for a file.

To build the hierarchy of includes, place the caret to an #include directive in a file or select a file in the Solution Explorer, and then press or choose ReSharper | Inspect | Hierarchies from the menu.

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If the Hierarchy window is closed, you can view and examine previously generated hierarchies at any time by choosing ReSharper | Windows | Hierarchies in the main menu.

However, this command does not build any new hierarchies and the window may be empty if you have not built any hierarchies since the current solution has been open.

You can double-click any file in the hierarchy to open it in the editor.

By default, child nodes of each file represent files included in this file, which corresponds to the Includee mode on the toolbar. You can switch to the Includers mode. In this mode, child nodes of a file represent files in the current scope that include this file.

For more information, refer to Analysis of Includes.