How can I find all the libraries of .NET in visual studio ?

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i want to see all the libraries, classes and functions of .net . i want to look in to them from visual studio. is there any way of doing so ?

What I have tried:

i know how to find them in windows assembly but i want to know how to find it in visual studio.

Posted 21-May-18 12:44pm

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Updated 21-May-18 21:06pm

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2018-05-21T15:10:00

Solution 1

Not directly, no. You would have to add the libraries to a project to see them in Object Explorer.

There are TENS OF THOUSAND of types (classes/structs/enums/other) in the .NET Framework alone. Add ADO.NET, ASP.NET, MVC, Entity Framework, ... and you're probably going to clear 100,000 types.

The best place to browse it all is the MSDN documentation. The top of the documentation tree is here[^].

Posted 21-May-18 15:10pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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Maciej Los 22-May-18 2:33am

5ed!

Richard Deeming 22-May-18 11:59am

If you change the Object Explorer's "Browse" drop-down from "My Solution" to the desired version of the .NET Framework, you should (eventually) get a list of the main BCL assemblies for that version.

You can also click the ellipses button next to the drop-down to define your own custom component set.

It's not the quickest, but you don't have to add a reference in order to see them.

Dave Kreskowiak 22-May-18 13:32pm

Hmmm...learn something new every day. I'm hardly ever in Object Explorer, useless I'm using something I haven't seen before.

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2018-05-21T21:07:00

Solution 2

See .NET Framework Class Library[^]

Posted 21-May-18 21:07pm

Richard MacCutchan