Navigating in depth

Solution Explorer in VS2015 provides a range of features intended to make navigating and searching within your solution effective without overcomplication. Knowing how to efficiently move among solution files will only help your productivity, so let's take a look at what is available.

Getting ready

Open the same web application solution that we have been using for the other recipes in this chapter, or choose a solution of your own. The concepts here will be of use in any project type.

How to do it...

  1. We'll begin by navigating through our solution. Locate the Global.asax file in the web app solution, and click on the arrow next to it so that its contents are displayed. As you would expect, there is a code-behind file:
  2. Look at the ...

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