The primary goal of
SourceLink.SymbolStore is to expose the necessary functionality needed by
Visual F# Power Tools to implement
F12 Navigate to Source (please vote). Visual Studio already uses the source indexed pdb files to download the source code while debugging, but I'd really like this to happen at
design time too. This is also a
highly requested Visual Studio feature (please vote).
Here is an
example console app that prints all the source files from the FSharp.Compiler.Service contained in its pdb. If the source file is source indexed, it prints the URL and downloads it.
This next example get all the methods for a type and uses the pdb to get the download URL and the line number. Given that info, I also print the URL to view the code in the browser on GitHub.
Credit
Figuring out the native interop is pretty difficult. I'd like to thank
Scout, an old navigation plugin for ReSharper, and Roslyn. Scout had the necessary pinvoke functions for srcsrv.dll. I ended up using Roslyn's COM interop as a starting point for interfacing with
comsym.h.
