How to find all references in multiple solutions?

Question

I have multiple solutions.  How to find all references of a class when I'm in VS2008 IDE?  The Find All References feature only find references within the current solution.  I want to find all references across a set of solutions. 

Answer 1

I don't think this is possible within Visual Studio.

 

However, you could load all of your assemblies in the free Reflector (http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/).  Then you can right click on the class, method, etc. and choose Analyze.  This will let you drill into categories such as "Used By".

Answer 2

Hi BinaryCoder,

 

Does that Reflector work for VS2008?

 

I wonder whether it is a bad idea to have multiple solutions.

 

 

 

Answer 3

> Does that Reflector work for VS2008?

 

It is a standalone tool; should work okay with EXEs/DLLs produced by VS2008.

 

> I wonder whether it is a bad idea to have multiple solutions.

 

It can be inconvenient; on the other hand, this inconvenience can be offset by better IDE and build performance.  (Some of the performance issues may have been fixed in VS2008).