Vista - The definition of the object is hidden

Hi all,

If I moved my mouse to an class then go to the definition. Then an error
message popped up "The defintion of the object is hidden".
Does that mean this is a third party component and the source code is not
available?

Thanks,
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Betty

Hi Betty,

As for the "The defintion of the object is hidden" message, generally it
means you're trying to view some types' definition whose source code is not
available in your current project context. However, I've also found some
former issues which occurs when you try visiting definition of some ASP.NET
page class(partial class) in web project. Here is a public bug report on it.

#Improper error message: "The definition of the object is hidden"
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualS...k.aspx?Feedbac
kID=115127

The above record is reported under visual studio 2005, are you also using
it? Based on my local test, Visual Studio 2008 web project doesn't have
such problem. Anyway, this message is a IDE specific behavior which won't
affect your web application's runtime behavior or any source code
inspection. As long as you have the source code of certain types/clases in
your current context, you'll be able to inspect them.

Sincerely,

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Steve,

My situation is a bit different. I do use vs.net 2005. I tried to duplicate
the error message again, but it seems this time when move my mouse to a
specfic function in a class, and choose "go to definition", it just stays
there without doing anything. But when I choose "find all references" it just
pop up a message, something like
"Preparing files
Preparing file xxXXXXX for refactoring(and the file name just keep
changing). after a while, when it seems almost finish refactoring(although I
don't know what it means)
I heard "boom" in the background and I don't see any other error messages
pop up and suddently I was kicked out of the vs.net 2005. The application
just simply closed. I duplicate this case more than 5 times.

Does that mean partial source code is not included in the project files?

thanks,
--
Betty


""Steven Cheng"" wrote:

Hi Betty,

As you mentioned that you move mouse to a class and select "go to
definition" or "find all references", then what kind of class are you
moving mouse at? Is it a class defined by yourself in teh project or a
project generated class(with partial file), such as those typed dataset or
LINQ classes ?

My local test is based on Visual studio 2008, and for classes defined by
ourselves, when I choose "go to definition" on it, it will go to the
class's definition. If the classes is defined in existing assmblies, the
IDE will generate some definition(such as class's public members and
properties) from its Metadata in assembly.

BTW, have you tried this on some other machine with visual studio installed
to see whether this is a consistent behavior?

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
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Steve,
Sorry, my bad. I looked that file again and actually it is an interface
definition.

The acutally implementation of the method is defined in the class which
inherits from this interface. I certainly won't find any definition
implentation directly in this interface.


I have a lot to learn. Sometimes I cannot find information so easily. You
will see more questions come up. So please bear with me.:+)

--
Betty


""Steven Cheng"" wrote:

Thanks for your followup Betty,

I'm glad that you've figured the problem out. No problem. Please feel free
to post here whenever you need any help.

Good luck!

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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