References Editor Sample

This is a sample extension that shows how an editor-based representation for the Find References feature can be build.

It is not intended as a product quality extension.

• Select a symbol
• Select F1 > Show All References
• An editor opens to the side and show the references in a textual form

How it works, what it shows?

• The extension implements and registers a TextDocumentContentProvider for a particular URI scheme.
• The content provider uses the vscode.executeReferenceProvider-API command to delegate searching for references to the language extensions, like TypeScript, vscode-go, or C#
• The generated document initially contains a caption only and incrementally updates as each reference location is resolved.
• Add links for each result in the virtual document pointing to the reference.
• Add an entry to editor context menu via package.json

How to run locally

• npm run compile to start the compiler in watch mode
• open this folder in VS Code and press F5