Scout is a navigation plugin for ReSharper. A licensed copy of JetBrains ReSharper must be installed on the target system.

The installer supports ReSharper version 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.1 and 4.5. For any other version it is possible to build the plugin from sources.

Version 1.1 does support offline reference source. Instructions:

• Set regional settings to US English (required).
• Reboot (required).
• Download all you need from http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx
• Run the installer.
• DO NOT install to D:\Documents and Settings\MyAccount\My Documents\RefSrc\ Enter a much shorter path, say D:\RefSrc. Otherwise some files will be unaccessible since the path length will exceed 255 characters.
• Set regional settings back to what is was before.
• Reboot.
• Enjoy.

Scout plugin includes following features:

• Browsing with Red Gate Reflector.
• Navigation to .Net framework source code.

For VS2005 srcsrv.dll & symsrv.dll must be copied from Debugging tools folder to "VisualStudioRoot\Common7\IDE folder". Also, .Net Framework 2.0 SP1/SP2 must be installed.

Click here to see how it works.

Follow these instructions to configure MS reference server.