Browsing the .NET Framework source code from Visual Studio

Question

I know that I can set up Visual Studio to debug through the .NET framework source code.

But is there a way that I can browse the code while NOT debugging - i.e., bei

Answer 1

There is a very new feature in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6

You can see decompiled source code without any plugin! Btw, Ref12 doesn't work for VS2017.

Tools > Options , expand Text Editor > C# > Advanced, and enable "Enable navigation to decompiled sources (experimental)".

Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/go-to-and-peek-definition?view=vs-2017#view-decompiled-source-definitions-instead-of-metadata-c