Visual Studio 2010 C# Navigate Switch Cases

Question

Does anyone know of a shortcut, preferably an extension, or some other way to easily navigate cases in a switch statement?

I often find myself wanting a popup, window, or something to show which cases are handled in a switch statement, jump to them, etc. It would be extremely handy, especially with large switch statements.

It would be nice to refactor some of the larger ones into a better design, but even with smaller ones, it would be nice to have this ability.

you'll only be able to "jump" to a switch case during run-time, and as Max said, the debugger gives that ability to you. — ryrich, Mar 23 '14 at 20:43
there is 'goto case label;' http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4756084/use-a-goto-in-a-switch — kenny, Mar 23 '14 at 21:38
[Switch statements smells](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SwitchStatementsSmell) — thepirat000, Mar 23 '14 at 23:06
@MaxMommersteeg No, im talking about at design time, while editing in the switch statement. — Joshjje, Mar 24 '14 at 01:28

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 24 '14 at 00:05

There are two things which can be done, but it requires refactoring to be done by hand.

Extract the code to a methods for each case statement and be consistent in the naming each methods. That will make it easier to navigate to the process via Visual Studio's go to method name on the upper right hand side of the editor.
Put in named regions around each of the case statements. That way one can collapse all case statements easily and the names which define the regions can be searched against; again if named consistently.

Visual Studio 2010 C# Navigate Switch Cases

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