You need to do the following steps to enable the Inline Hints:
- Go to Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# > Advanced.
- Check the
Display inline parameter name hints
checkbox. - Check the
Display inline type hints
checkbox.
Inline parameter name hints
will show you the parameters name when you are using a function, this is very helpful especially when you are trying to make a call to a function that has so many parameters and you have to pass most of them.
When Inline parameter name hints
is turned on:
The Inline type hints
will show hints when you are working with types as you can see in the following code where I initialize a Dog
object and assign it to a var
.
When Inline type hints
is turned on:
In the following code both Inline parameter name hints
and Inline type hints
are turned on: