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Find Usages. Method Options

This section describes the controls for specifying Method Usage Search options in the Find Usages dialog.

You can also open this dialog when you click Settings in the Show Usages popup which lists all the occurrences of the symbol at caret.

Item

Description

Find

In this area, specify the objects to search.

  • Usages - if this checkbox is selected, the search is performed for all references of the method by its name.

  • Overriding methods - if this checkbox is selected, the search is performed for all methods that override the selected method.

  • Implementing methods - if this checkbox is selected, the search is performed for all methods that implement the selected method.

Text occurrences

Select this checkbox to search in for the occurrences in text files.

Skip results tab with one usage

Select this checkbox to be navigated directly to the found usage without the Find tool window displayed, when only one usage is found.

Scope

In this area, specify the scope of search. Select a pre-defined scope from the list or click the Browse button the Browse button to open the Scopes dialog, where you can define a custom scope.

Open results in new tab

Select this checkbox to have the results of each search shown in a separate tab of the Find Results window. If the checkbox is cleared, the search results will overwrite the contents of the current tab.

Last modified: 26 January 2023