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Visual Studio Code – Visual Studio 2022: how to go to a variable/field/property's type definition in one step?

I seem to recall an option in pre-2022 versions of Visual Studio that allowed you to right-click on a variable, field, or property and select "Go to Type Definition". This appears to be missing in VS 2022.

So, if I have a variable of type Customer called myCust and I want to see it’s type definition, it is a two-step process:

  1. Right-click the variable myCust and select Go to Definition, which takes me to there the variable is declared (i.e., a line of code like Customer myCust;)
  2. Then I need to right click on the type name Customer and again select Go to Definition….which finally takes me to where I wanted to go in the first place (that is, the definition of the class Customer)

Is there now no way to navigate directly with a single click from a variable instance to the the definition of that variable’s type?

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    Holding down Control when left-clicking will go to the definition of the type – that is working for me in VS 2022.
    It appears that F12 is also a hotkey that can do this after you have clicked the type, but I prefer the Control + Click.

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    I’m using Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition. You can get back Go to Type Definition with the following steps.

    Tools > Customize > Commands > Context Menu > Editor Context Menus | Code Window > Add Command > Edit > Go to Type Definition

    At this time, you can click the right button again to see Go to Type Definition. Of course, you can also define Go to Type Definition in the same way

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