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Find Usages. Method Options

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

The dialog opens when you click settings in the Show Usages pop-up window which lists all the occurrences of the symbol at caret.

ItemDescription
Find In this area, specify the objects to search.
  • Usages - if this check box is selected, the search is performed for all references of the method by its name.
  • Overriding methods - if this check box is selected, the search is performed for all methods that override the selected method.
  • Implementing methods - if this check box is selected, the search is performed for all methods that implement the selected method.
Search for text occurrences Select this check box to have text contents and comments involved in searching.
Skip results tab with one usage Select this check box 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 drop-down list or click the Browse button browseButton.png to open the Scopes dialog box, where you can define a custom scope.
Open in new tab Select this check box have the results of each search shown in a separate tab of the Find Results window. If the check box is cleared, the search results will overwrite the contents of the current tab.
Last modified: 29 November 2017

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