>>>I'm sure almost everyone else knows this but maybe it will save one person some frustration:
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>>>While studying the js scripts in John Papa's Code Camper app (highly recommended) I could not get F12 or the right-click Go to Definition to work on javascript objects. Was trying to figure out as I looked at each js script where the stuff being used was defined,and there were at least 50 scripts that were candidates.
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>>>Finally caught on that if you drag a script from Solution explorer onto the script you are looking at then it will be part of a definition search. Great,for jquery or jquery-ui but do I want to drag 50 scripts onto each script I am examining.???
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>>>Solution : adding all references to a script called _reference.js will make all the scripts referenced available globally for intellisense and object definition search. (each added, including /// by just dragging from Solution Explorer. )
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>>>Hope this saves somebody some time and frustration.
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>>>( BTW, the _references.js does not have to be included into the project, it is strictly a design time thing)
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>>Isn't the _references.js file now created automatically by the project template ?
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>Yes, I believe it is. For a WebAPI app the jquery and knockout libraries are added by default, but I think you have to add other libraries manually in order for them to show up globally for intellisense and object search.
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>In this case, I needed a way to have *all* js files be part of intellisense and object search since I was examining a complex app written by somebody else and was trying to figure out what routines were defined in moment.js or TrafficCop.js or amplify.*.js etc. or just in another script he had created for the app ( a UOW etc )
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>In the training videos John Papa - who is using Resharper which will find anything in the project - was just hitting F12 and boom - he went to the referenced object. And while he said "or you can right-click and Go to Definition" neither one was working for me on calls outside of standard jquery or knockout.
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>That said, I am going to buy Resharper now. Can't have too many cool tools :-)

I've had ReSharper for quite some time. I do find the number of 'short-cuts' a bit overwhelming - and the codes are not, at least for me, particularly intuitive. I probably only use a small percentage of its capabilities - but it is definitely worth having....