Which IDE and version of VA are you using?
Which language are you working in? The "->" makes me think C++, but I am not getting anything in square brackets when I run a quick Find References here. Can you post a screen shot of your Find References Results context menu / mouse right click menu. This will tell me which options you have On and which ones you have Off, so I can set the same settings here.
Since I don't know what is going on here, I have created the following test case. I have set the header file to have:
class FindInsideMain
{
public:
bool FindPackageFile(std::string strFileName) { return false; }
};
class HoldsMain1
{
void Main();
};
class HoldsMain2
{
void Main();
};
class HoldsMain3
{
void Main();
};
class HoldsMain4
{
void Main();
};
and the cpp file to hold:
void HoldsMain1::Main()
{
FindInsideMain *pFindTarget = new FindInsideMain;
pFindTarget->FindPackageFile("class HoldsMain1");
}
void HoldsMain2::Main()
{
FindInsideMain *pFindTarget = new FindInsideMain;
pFindTarget->FindPackageFile("class HoldsMain2");
}
void HoldsMain3::Main()
{
FindInsideMain *pFindTarget = new FindInsideMain;
pFindTarget->FindPackageFile("class HoldsMain3");
}
void HoldsMain4::Main()
{
FindInsideMain *pFindTarget = new FindInsideMain;
pFindTarget->FindPackageFile("class HoldsMain4");
}
I am using VS2022 and VA 2568.0, and this is what I see in Find References Results
If you have enabled tooltips you can get more context when hovering the mouse over each result. Here I agree that not showing the fully qualified function name is unclear, but multiple classes with the same, non overloaded function name in the same file isn't something you expect to see that often.
Find References: easy improvement
Posted - Aug 21 2025 : 12:45:59 PM
