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Visual Studio doesn't hint references to Local Functions

Antonio Vidal Carrasco 21 Reputation points
2022-11-04T14:52:49.66+00:00

Hello,
Recently I started using Local Functions because I see a lot of benefit for hiding logic that only affects to a method inside that same method.

But after a while, I started to notice a big drawback of using it that is making me doubt about the utility of these methods and it's not related to performance or the code itself.

It's related to the support that the IDE give to them.
In my case I tried in Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code.
The problem is that I can't use "Go to all", the class view (I think this is normal) or even the hints for usage are not there, so I can't not know if the method is used or not used just by looking at it.

This is very annoying as I like to navigate using these shortcuts and when I have several of them that I want to jump from one to another, it gets very annoying.

I tried to find more people on the internet with the same problem but I couldn't so I was surprised.

Do you think this could be supported in the future?

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  1. Anna Xiu-MSFT 27,891 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2022-11-07T04:10:54.527+00:00

    Hi @Antonio Vidal Carrasco ,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

    I tested it on my side. I suppose it is designed like this. The reference is not supported on local functions in C#.
    If you have any suggestion about the feature, you can directly report it to product team by selecting “Help” menu > Send Feedback.

    By the way, I click on Edit > Go To > Go To All… > type “squ” > it shows as follows:
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    Sincerely,
    Anna
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  1. Antonio Vidal Carrasco 21 Reputation points
    2022-11-07T10:47:39.437+00:00

    Hello Anna,
    Thank you for taking your time to answer.

    It's very weird that you can see the local methods in "Go To All".
    I followed your steps and still I can't see them and, by the picture, it seems that your methods is actually a private method, not a local one.
    Maybe you can share your code?

    I will use the “Help” menu > Send Feedback menu, as you said!

    Regards,
    Antonio