Roslyn: Button or link to show overloads of method.

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Hi, Is there any chance for visual studio to make the + 〇 overloads clickable or someother way to simply show the overloads. At least I think it should be able to do by some mouse click.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9891656/visual-studio-how-to-show-overloads-in-intellisense

And I think the shortcut for this is really hard to remember and type.

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Original Comments

Feedback Bot on 7/19/2020, 11:30 PM:

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[mikadumont]

@CyrusNajmabadi @sharwell @jasonmalinowski let me know your thoughts on the following options:

Option 1 - Incorporate arrow functionality to quick info to view overloads:

Option 2 - Remove the +1 and insert a link in quick info:

Clicking the link opens signature help:

[CyrusNajmabadi]

strong preference toward:

(though, i woudl just have the arrows at the start to look similar to sighelp).

[mikadumont]

@CyrusNajmabadi yeah may as well have it be the same.

[jmarolf]

I think option 1 is the smallest change we could make. Would like to try that and see what the reception is.

[jasonmalinowski]

For the second option what I had in mind was still keep the (+1 overloads) text, just make that clickable. That way you're not losing the info if you didn't want the new feature.

[CyrusNajmabadi]

So... in terms of impl... couldn't we just do this:

1. if the user hovers over a symbol that has overlaods (i.e. method/index/generics/etc.)... then we:
2. just pop up sig help, just without a particular 'parameter' selected.

Woudln't this just give the experience we want? i.e. we'd have the signatures with the up/down items as before. we'd just show normal symbol information under that, and not information about any particular parameter...

The only difference (i guess) is if up/down keystrokes are captured here. But i'm not certain it's a bad thing if they were captured. if it was a bad thing, we coudl easily change our controller to capture up/down for normal sig help, but not capture for quick-info-sig-help.

This seems super easy to prototype and try out.

Thoughts?

[mikadumont]

Proposal:

If the user hovers over a symbol that has overlaods (i.e. method/index/generics/etc.)... then we:
Show signature help, just without a particular 'parameter' selected.