FindAllReferences
English | 简体中文
A VS Code extension that recreates the Visual Studio Find All References window. Reference locations come from the active language service (for C#, the C# Dev Kit / C# extension; other languages work the same way), and the results appear in the Find All References tab in the panel.
Usage
- Put the cursor on a symbol and press Shift+F12, or choose Find All References (VS Style) from the editor context menu.
- While results are shown, F4 / Shift+F4 moves to the next / previous reference (collapsed groups expand automatically).
- Both shortcuts can be turned off in settings:
findAllReferences.useShiftF12 and findAllReferences.useF4Navigation.
Language
The window is available in English and Chinese. The findAllReferences.language setting controls it:
| Value |
Language |
auto (default) |
Follows the VS Code display language: Chinese when VS Code is in Chinese, English otherwise |
zh-cn |
Chinese |
en |
English |
Changing it takes effect immediately, including for results already in the window and the panel tab title ("Find All References" / 「查找所有引用」). Command names and the settings page itself always follow the VS Code display language, because VS Code reads them before the extension runs.
Window features
| Feature |
Description |
| Columns |
Code, File, Line, Column, Project, Containing Member, Containing Type, Kind, Repository; plus a Path column hidden by default |
| Scope |
Entire Solution, Current Project, Current Document, Open Documents, Changed Documents (Git) |
| Group by |
Project then Definition / Definition only / Definition then Project / Definition then Path / Definition, Project then Path |
| List view (Alt+L) |
Flat, ungrouped list |
| Keep results (Alt+K) |
Once the current tab is kept, the next search opens a new tab; close tabs with middle-click or × |
| Column filters |
Funnel icon in the header with Excel-style checkboxes; "Clear All Filters" also clears the search box |
| Sorting |
Click a header for ascending → descending → back to the default (path, line, column) |
| Column width and visibility |
Drag a header divider to resize, double-click it to auto-fit; right-click the header to choose visible columns |
| Search |
The search box at the top right filters on the text of every column (Ctrl+F) |
| Copy |
Toolbar button or Ctrl+C copies the selected rows (selecting a group copies everything under it), tab-separated with a header row |
| Keyboard |
Up / Down / PageUp / PageDown / Home / End move and preview, Left / Right collapse and expand, Enter opens, Ctrl+A selects all |
Single-clicking an entry opens it in a preview tab and keeps focus in the window; double-click or Enter opens it and moves focus to the editor.
Where each column comes from
- Project: scans the workspace's
.csproj files. Unity-generated projects list each <Compile Include>, so files are mapped exactly from that list (for example Assembly-CSharp, Assembly-CSharp-Editor); SDK-style projects are mapped by folder; C# files that belong to no project go under "Miscellaneous Files"; for other languages, the name from the nearest package.json or the folder containing the nearest project marker file is used.
- Containing Member / Containing Type: the innermost member and type in the document symbol tree that contain the location; nested types are joined with dots.
- Kind: language services don't report usage kinds, so a single-line heuristic modelled on Roslyn's categories is used. Types: qualified, type argument, object creation, base, type constraint, import, name. Values such as fields and properties: read, write, read/write (combined with read/write information from document highlights). The declaration is marked "definition". Results may differ from Visual Studio's exact classification.
- Repository: the root folder name of the repository reported by the built-in Git extension.
Development
npm install
npm test
npm run package
npm test compiles and runs three test suites: pure functions on the extension side (kinds, symbol chains, project mapping), the view model (scope, filtering, sorting, grouping, copying), and a webview smoke test in jsdom. npm run package produces vs-find-all-references-<version>.vsix, which you can install in VS Code with Install from VSIX.
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