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laktak
laktak

Reputation: 60003

VS Intellisense: can you hide extension methods?

By default Visual Studio displays all members and its extension methods for a type in intellisense.

Sometimes I would like to hide the extension methods to make it easier to find the member I am actually looking for (especially when using Linq).

Is there a shortcut or another way to display only the members of a type in intellisense?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 2162

Answers (4)

Even Mien
Even Mien

Reputation: 45898

Visual Studio 2022 has this.

When Intellisense is displaying, you can toggle 'Show only Properties' and 'Show only Methods' (hold Ctrl to get click both).

If you want to only see the extension methods, you can toggle 'Show only Extension methods'.

Upvotes: 1

mezoid
mezoid

Reputation: 28710

Perhaps you could try using something like resharper which filters the list of methods as you type. I find this helps me to quickly get to what I need. And it will do so without hiding useful extention methods

Upvotes: 0

annakata
annakata

Reputation: 75814

In theory you could do this with the appropriate decorator attribute*, but googling this it seems it's bugged, with the fix awaiting a service pack presumably.

* [System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsable(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Never)]

Upvotes: 2

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1500535

Not that I'm aware of - but one thing you might want to do is get rid of the using directive for System.Linq. At that point the extension method won't be accessible, and I believe it won't be offered by Intellisense.

Obviously that's no good if you want to use LINQ from one bit of code in a class, but not in another - but for classes which aren't using LINQ at all, it might help you.

Upvotes: 7

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