Exploring and Decompiling Assemblies

Assembly Explorer view allows opening multiple assemblies and keeping a list of open assemblies and folders. You can traverse and explore all open assemblies. Expanding an assembly node lists namespaces within the assembly, which can be further expanded to types and type members, as well as assembly references. You can double-click any type to decompile it or fetch source from a symbol server (depending on your settings).
In addition, the Assembly Explorer contains nodes representing base types and inheritors of the current type.

You can easily search symbols in all assemblies loaded in the Assembly Explorer — just use Search Everywhere (Ctrl+T or Shift twice) or Go to Symbol (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+T) commands.

In this section:

• Opening and Closing Assemblies
• Finding Assemblies in Folders
• Opening Assemblies from NuGet Packages
• Opening Assemblies from Global Assembly Cache
• Managing Assembly Lists