Visual Studio extension to show the code structure of your current document
- Quickly see all the important methods and properties in your document
- Never get lost during a refactoring of a super long document
- Clicking on an item in the list will take you to that location in the document
- Double-clicking on an item in the list will move the caret to that location in the document
- Show/Dock as a separate tool window.
- Cursor position will be reflected by highlighting the current method in the list
- Light/Dark theme support
- Collapse/Expand all ranges
- History/edit indicators
- Sort by file order or by name
- Regions
- Filter/search items by name
- Hide, ignore or change opacity of items based on item kind (method, property), access (public, private), empty state
- Customizable fonts
- Bookmarks
- Synced collapsing/expanding outline regions
- Option to hide the tool window for unsupported files and files without code items
- Compact mode with less spacing optimizing screen real estate
- Visual Studio 2022 (Untested)
- Visual Studio 2026
- C#
- Visual Basic (enable it in the CodeNav settings)
The CodeNav tool window can be opened via the entry in the Extensions menu.
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