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| <h1>Open Declaration</h1> |
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| <p>You can select an element name in your code and quickly navigate to its declaration.</p> |
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| <p>Open declaration will attempt to navigate to the exact definition of the selected element if the selected element is a reference or a declaration. |
| Otherwise, it will attempt to navigate to a declaration of the selected element. |
| Open declaration requires your file to have the proper include paths set up to the declaration. |
| If for any reason open declaration cannot find the declaration, it will display the following message in the status line:</p> |
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| <img src="../images/open_declaration_error.png" alt="No declaration was found message."> |
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| <p>For more information see <a href="../tasks/cdt_t_sd.htm">Setting up include paths and macros for C/C++ indexer</a>.</p> |
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