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Use Peek Definition to see inline definitions

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Use Peek Definition to see inline definitions

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- Peek Definition is another way to go to a code definition. It works like this. I'm inside this program.cs file, I want to look up the definition for this book data source. I showed you earlier in this chapter, you can right-click and choose go to definition. And that opens the file in this separate tab. With Peek Definition I don't have to open that separate tab. Right-click here, choose to Peek Definition. And instead I get this inline window that allows me to view or edit the code in another file without opening the tab. Or I think of it another way. The tab is here inline in your document. Now I can see the entire document here, I can scroll up and down within this window. When I'm done looking, I can click the X button to close the peek window. Let's do it again. This time we'll do it on this method. It works like you'd expect. Let's say that I want to edit the code. One way I can do that is click on this button here to promote to a document. Now it becomes a full-fledged tab, I…

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