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    copied!<p>I'm working on a .net project that uses the <a href="http://springframework.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Spring.NET</a> framework for dependency injection (DI). A typical solution contains several dozens of (small) xml DI configuration files. Navigating through these files isn't as frictionless as it could be.</p> <p>I would like to know more tricks to be able to quickly navigate through the xml object definitions and the corresponding code. Got some you care to share?</p> <p><em>Example scenarios</em></p> <p>For instance, a solution contains the following files:</p> <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;!-- file1.xml --&gt; &lt;object id="exampleObject" type="Examples.ExampleObject, ExamplesLibrary"&gt; &lt;property name="objectOne" ref="anotherExampleObject"/&gt; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;!-- file2.xml, somewhere in the same solution --&gt; &lt;object id="anotherExampleObject" type="Examples.AnotherExampleObject, ExamplesLibrary"&gt; &lt;property name="Name" value="anotherExampleObject"/&gt; &lt;/object&gt; </code></pre> <p>Assuming you are working in file1.xml, how would you quickly navigate from ...</p> <ul> <li><code>ref="anotherExampleObject"</code> to the object definition in <code>file2.xml</code>?</li> <li><code>type="Examples.ExampleObject, ExamplesLibrary"</code> to the <code>ExampleObject</code> class in <code>Examples.ExampleObject.cs</code></li> </ul> <p><em>Notes</em></p> <p>I'm <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6064759/spring-codeconfig-vs-xml-configuration">fully aware</a> of the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2033004/castle-windsor-or-spring-net-advantages-and-disadvantages">advantages and disadvantages</a> of using XML for configuring a DI container. Let's just accept the fact that I'm required to use xml and that I would like the process to be as friction-less as possible.</p> <p>Answers do not have to be specific to Spring.NET, navigation tricks used for xml configuration in other .NET DI frameworks are appreciated too.</p> <p>Currently I work mostly with VS 2010 with ReSharper 6; feel free to recommend any tool compatible with VS 2008 or 2010.</p>
 

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