Stupid Question 231: What is ’Peek to definition’ in Visual Studio 2013?

[To celebrate my first year of programming I will ask a ‘stupid’ questions daily on my blog for a year, to make sure I learn at least 365 new things during my second year as a developer]

[caption id=“attachment_7152” align=“aligncenter” width=“695”] ’Peek to definition’ in Visual Studio 2013[/caption]

Since I got this question today I’ll just write up an easy answer for it here, for those of you who didn’t follow the Windows Blue (8.1) release. Peek to definition is a new function in Visual Studio 2013 (now as a preview) that allows you to have a peek at the implementation of a type or member in a smaller popup window where your cursor is instead of having to navigate to the implementation by using F12. This is something I most certainly will use a lot.

To use it you simply leave the cursor at the item, and the hit Alt + F12.
Esc will close the peek.

This is available in C#, VB and C++.

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Last modified on 2013-08-20