Cross-project navigation experience of corefx in VS

[huoyaoyuan]

Loading all corefx projects into VS might be achievable, since the code base is not so much larger than roslyn. (~14k files in roslyn\src, ~20k files in runtime\src\libraries)

[ViktorHofer]

For that @stephentoub recently added the following script which generates a solution file for all the libraries: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/master/src/libraries/GenerateLibrariesSln.ps1

[stephentoub]

Closing as addressed by the script.

[huoyaoyuan]

Glad to know about it. Please also mention it in the docs.

[huoyaoyuan]

@stephentoub After having a try, F12 is still navigating to binary, because the projects aren't using project references.
I know the progress building corefx is very different from building "normal" projects. Can we setup IDE-only projects, or use some condition only set by IDE, to let the projects consuming project reference?

[ViktorHofer]

That's not possible because of targeting reference assemblies instead of the implementation assemblies. That said, @ericstj is experimenting to enable this scenario (still referencing ref assemblies but navigating to the implementation assembly).