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I have used the sample F# Empty WPF project and pulled in Paul Bett's ReactiveUI project via Nuget. Normally when I press (shift-f2) on an identifier in C#/VB.Net it takes me to the object browser so I can explore the interface of the object. However two problems.

  • Initially ReactiveUI is not even available in the Object Browser. I had to go to the soution explorer and explicity click view in object browser on each reference and then they appeared in the object browser. Perhapps this is intended for F# projects??

  • Second when I do have a symbol in my F# code, say an instance of ReactiveObject and do (shift-f2) I get an error cannot navigate to definition. Source code not available.

So my question is how can I solve the two above problems, the second being the most important.

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    The second issue has always been the behavior in VS2010 and VS2012 – I'd be surprised if there is a fix. Commented Dec 14, 2012 at 19:49
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    Given that the intellisense can show the correct type and XML doc it surprises me that its not a trivial fix to implement. I'll find it hard to convince the team to try f# if its hard to browse API in the browser. Commented Dec 14, 2012 at 23:55
  • Possible duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/7128131/… Commented Dec 18, 2012 at 1:51
  • Do you really want to see the underlying objects? Commented Dec 27, 2012 at 17:46
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    Let's say i want to browse the api from visual studio. For example I cursor over fst and press f12 it would be nice to see the doc for fst and then at a glance see all other functions associated with the list module. I think we are being pedantic here if we worry about it being called an "object" browser. Id call it a doc explorer. Commented Dec 27, 2012 at 18:18
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