References Editor Sample

This is a sample extension that shows how an editor-based representation for the Find References feature can be build.

It is not intended as a product quality extension.

Select a symbol
Select F1 > Show All References
An editor opens to the side and show the references in a textual form

How it works, what it shows?

The extension implements and registers a TextDocumentContentProvider for a particular URI scheme.
The content provider uses the vscode.executeReferenceProvider-API command to delegate searching for references to the language extensions, like TypeScript, vscode-go, or C#
The generated document initially contains a caption only and incrementally updates as each reference location is resolved.
Add links for each result in the virtual document pointing to the reference.
Add an entry to editor context menu via package.json

How to run locally

npm run compile to start the compiler in watch mode
open this folder in VS Code and press F5