Visual Studio Code Lens



This post & video explained about the CodeLens in Visual Studio Code

Code Lens:

CodeLens is a very useful features for the developer to easy way to identify the Property or Method references in particular file. This require to enables from Settings and below are the steps to require to enable CodeLens in Visual Studio Code Settings.

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Step 1: From Settings – Type Codelens and Enable the Editor: Code Lens and Javascript > References Code Lens to check the references in JavaScript File.

The References indicator is required to be on because it is the only one that knows how to do 'placeholder' items (the one that says '- references'), and is guaranteed to show up everywhere that codelens appears. If you could turn off references, then it is highly possible that codelens would reserve space for indicators, and yet no indicators would ever appear, so you would end up with blank. Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform.

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Step 2: Then open any of your JavaScript file to identify the References of Property or Method in the file.

Please check the below video for more info about to enable the CodeLens in Visual Studio Code:

Visual Studio Code Lens Review

Also some popular Visual Studio Code extensions also available in Market Place like Git Lens, Version Lens, etc to explore identifying detail level references.

Visual Studio Code Gitlens

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Visual Studio Code Lens Definition

Use the CodeLens options page to modify the text editor CodeLens settings for F#. To access this options page, choose Tools > Options, and then choose Text Editor > F# > CodeLens.

CodeLens

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  • Enable CodeLens (Experimental)

    When this option is selected, interactive annotations appear in the code that let you easily find references and changes to your code, linked bugs, work items, code reviews, and unit tests.

  • Use colors in annotations

    Select this check box to display the CodeLens annotations in color to easily differentiate the items CodeLens reports.

  • Show annotations to the right instead of above the line

    By default, CodeLens annotations appear over a code line. Select this check box to have the annotations appear to the right of the code instead of above it.

  • Annotation prefix

    You can change the default prefix that is used for the annotations.

What Is Codelens

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