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Extension Members in Object Browser

Sat, August 4, 2007, 05:08 PM under Orcas | VisualStudio
Recall the new C#3 and VB9 language feature extension methods? Well, if you go into the object browser in Visual Studio 2008, there is an option to display extension methods for the chosen class. The following screenshot depicts that for the XElement (from XLinq):

Nice! The 3 extension methods (Validate and GetSchemaInfo) are actually defined in the static System.Xml.Schema.Extensions class, but still show up where we'd expect them to.

The above screenshot is in a VB project and I cannot get this feature to work reliably for me in C# projects yet. The option is there in both projects, but the result isn't. Here is how you enable the feature btw:

Go check it out...
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