I am used to IDEs such as Eclipse, NetBeans or the ones from Borland,
now trying to learn Visual C++.

One of the most basic operations is the ability to double-click on
*any* variable or other symbol, and find out where it is defined or
declared.

Is this feature supposed to work properly in Visual Studio (2005,
version 8)?

When I double click on one particular variable (which happens to be
global), I get this error message:

"The symbol 'xyz' is not defined."

The "Find All References" produces this:

"The symbol 'xyz' is not referenced."

Can anyone confirm or explain this behavior?

TIA,

-RFH

On Thu, 1 May 2008 20:54:02 -0700 (PDT), Ramon F Herrera
conexus.net> wrote:

You probably need to enable "Browsing". Look in Project -> Settings ->
C/C++ -> General _and_ Project -> Settings -> Browse Info

On May 2, 1:54 pm, Ramon F Herrera conexus.net> wrote:

If the symbol 'xyz' is in fact not defined, then yes.

Does the 'find in files', file search option find any
references to 'xyz' ?

Jussi Jumppanen
Author: Zeus for Windows IDE
http://www.zeusedit.com