I installed Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate and after opening a project I noticed CodeLens information is not showing up.
In the preview versions you had to turn this on in the options menu, but I can't seem to find this option anymore.
Why doesn't this work?
You need Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate with Team Foundation Server 2013.
To use this feature you will need Visual Studio 2013 Preview and Team
Foundation Server 2013 Preview as some information comes from TFS.
and:
Here's what you’ll need:
Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 to find references
Team Foundation Server 2013 to find changesets, code review requests,
and different kinds of work items
Source
This article will tell you the same.
You can download Team Foundation Server here.
The option is hidden in
Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages -> Code Information Indicators
The only one that appears to work for us is the references, even though all options are enabled.
Update: My missing options were answered here...
VS 2013 CodeLens
Hope this helps.
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I have installed Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017.
I cannot find any option to switch on CodeLens. Is this feature removed from this version?
CodeLens is not available in the Community editions. You need Professional or higher to switch it on.
In VS2015, one way to "get" CodeLens was to install the SQL Server Developer Tools (SSDT) but I believe this has been rectified in VS2017.
Visual Studio Community dose not support CodeLens , only Visual Studio
Professional and Visual Studio
Enterprise give this Integrated Development Environment Facility.
For more information go to this link enter link description here
For Visual information Please See this Image: Visual Studio
Community supported Features
If you like CodeLens you can install Visual Studio 2019 Community
Microsoft has enabled it even for the Community edition. See Integrated Development Environment on Visual Studio Comparison. Most features are enabled.
See CodeLens for Everyone What's New in Visual Studio 2019 for more info.
CodeLens is now available since VS 2017 Community Update 8, but it only contains Requests and Exceptions of Application Insights, no References:
From Dante Gagne [MSFT] on Oct 31, 2018 at 05:38 PM:
The infrastructure for CodeLens has been released in the Visual Studio 2017 Update 8. Please install and let us know your feedback. Please continue to provide feedback and help us make Visual Studio even better.
Source
It can be enabled in the Text Editor Options under All Languages --> CodeLens --> Enable CodeLens
Resharper has "Find Usages" and "Find Usages Advanced". The default keyboard shortcut for "Find Usages" is Shift+F12. If you can live with using that shortcut instead of clicking on the reference link above a type then you're good to go. I've moved the results window from the bottom to the left and enabled auto-hide.
Good enough for me.
For Visual Studio Community 2019 a lesser CodeLens version is available:
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/compare/
Visual Studio Community 2019:
Visual Studio Professional 2019:
I have a need to sync up with a legacy source control which is using VSS.
I cannot find any documentation on how to get/enable VSS in Visual Studio 2015 Professional (from MSDN license).
I have looked at the dropdown in the Source Control menu, under Tools -> Options, and the only plugins that exist there are Microsoft Git Provider, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, and None.
FYI - I found this: http://www.dynamsoft.com/blog/version-control-how-to/how-to-connect-visual-studio-2013-to-visual-sourcesafe/
Seems this is a viable solution (although it is only a 30 day trial). Will mark as answer unless a free way is provided.
Install the SourceSafe patch below to enable Visual Studio to display SourceSafe in its Tools|Source Control Plug-in list
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=291
Is there a reason why the references count (code lens) is missing in Visual Studio Community edition?
Is is possible to enable it in the options?
Here is a screenshot of Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 Community edition:
Here is a screenshot of Visual Studio 2013:
source: dailydotnettips.com
I installed the latest SSDT preview for Visual Studio 2015 from the link below on 2 machines I have with VS 2015 Community edition (Update 1), and CodeLens started working for all my projects.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt204009.aspx
This isn't a generic reference counting feature, it's just one of the features of CodeLens. CodeLens is only available in Visual Studio 2015 Pro and above. In Visual Studio 2013 it was a Ultimate-only feature.
UPDATE
As others have noted, installing SSDT or SSMS 2016 may enable CodeLens as well. That's because VS 2015 Community is Pro, with a different license and some missing extensions like CodeLens. As long as an extension's binaries and settings are installed, Community will activate the extension.
UPDATE 2019
"CodeLens has been a feature found only in Visual Studio Enterprise, but that will change in an upcoming preview of Visual Studio 2019, when it will also be available for the Community edition, likely in 2019"
What's New in Visual Studio 2019
I have Visual Studio 2015 Community edition and it originally did NOT have CodeLens.
However, after going to Tools -> Extensions and Updates -> Product Updates and then downloading SSDT and installing all options within the SSDT package, my VS 2015 Community Edition now miraculously has access to CodeLens.
On the Tools tab choose Options.
In the open window choose like bellow, and then press ok.
Good Luck!!!
This feature has been disabled in Visual Studio Community 2017, although it sounds like it was temporarily available in pre-release versions.
The Visual Studio Team issued this statement on the 14th of March 2017:
An authoring error in the SQL Server Data Tools resulted in the
capability temporarily showing up incorrectly in Visual Studio
Community when installed; the change you see is a result of correcting
that mistake.
Also, on the Compare Visual Studio 2017 Offerings page CodeLens appears to not be available in the Community edition.
I'm not allowed to Comment on R. Richards answer above, so posting this as a separate answer: CodeLens references disappeared for me too when I upgraded my VS Pro to 2017. But only on my Desktop ("same" upgrade behaved differently on my laptop, where CodeLens settings apparently unaffected). Anyway, very easy to resolve just Enable CodeLens under Text Editor : All Languages
An alternative is to just right-click the member and select 'Find All References' or the hot key shift + F12*. Not only you will find the count of references grouped by project, but also the underlying code lines and their classes.
* As per Visual Studio 2017 Community.
We just switched over to VS 2013 and I heard that you're supposed to be able to
generate code maps for your entire application. Awesome feature indeed, that could
get new developers on our project up to speed.
Watched a couple of tutorials, but when I tried to just right click on a method
in the application, the 'Show on Code Map' context menu is missing. In fact, I
can't find anything in VS that has anything to do with Code Maps.
My version:
Visual Studio Premium 2013
I tried installing Modeling SDK for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, but that didn't do anything.
Anyone got any ideas?
You need Visual Studio ULTIMATE to create Code Maps.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj739835.aspx
This has changed for Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017:
The Enterprise Edition allows creating code maps.
The Community and Professional Editions can open diagrams generated in other Visual Studio editions in read-only mode.
I have installed Visual Studio 2013 RC Professional but i am not seeing codelens feature working. Even tried looking for Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages -> Code Information Indicators but "Code Information Indicators" option is totally missing.
Any help how can i see codelens in VS2013 RC Prof?
You need Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate with Team Foundation Server 2013.
To use this feature you will need Visual Studio 2013 Preview and Team
Foundation Server 2013 Preview as some information comes from TFS.
and:
Here's what you’ll need:
Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 to find references
Team Foundation Server 2013 to find changesets, code review requests,
and different kinds of work items
Source
This article will tell you the same.
You can download Team Foundation Server here.