The summary is to give a general overview of what the property can do, whereas the value describes just that, what value to expect from the property. Here is a good example of the difference on MSDN: List<T>.IList.IsFixedSize Property Summary: Gets a value indicating whether the IList has a fixed size. Value: true if the … Read more
The feature is named XML Documentation Comments and is documented here. It appears to have been modelled closely on the equivalent .net feature so you should be right at home with it. The documentation contains this example: /// <summary> Removes the specified item from the collection /// </summary> /// <param name=”Item”>The item to remove /// … Read more
The long and the short answer is that this isn’t possible. Unlike Java, none of the .NET languages require that functions report a list of possible exceptions that can be thrown (which means that you either have to catch or report any exceptions that could be thrown on functions that it calls). Because of this, … Read more
Try /// Has a close relation to the <see cref=”Get(string)”/> /// and <see cref=”Get(int)” /> methods. You may need full typenames but intellisense should help as soon as you put first bracket in. Hope that helps, Dan
Use <paramref> <paramref name=”personId”/>
For the project level go to Project -> Properties -> Build tab If you want to disable the warning to some code section, try this : #pragma warning disable XXX,XXX //your code #pragma warning restore XXX,XXX Read about #pragma warning
Add a summary to each constant containing the value, then refer to those comments: /// <summary>24</summary> private const byte _minAge = 24; /// <summary>29</summary> private const byte _maxAge = 29; /// <summary>Checks whether the age is within the allowed range (between <inheritdoc cref=”_minAge”/> and <inheritdoc cref=”_maxAge”/>).</summary> public bool IsInAgeRange() { … } I know it’s … Read more
You need to use curly braces: /// <summary> /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref=”Repository{T}”/> class. /// </summary> For each typeparam, just add an additional value in the braces, delimited with a comma.
An easy way is to set the GenerateDocumentationFile property to true. The VS UI want to set the path, the MSBuild targets will set this property to true if the path is set or set a default path if the GenerateDocumentationFile property is true. So you can add this to your csproj file: <PropertyGroup> <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile> … Read more
A couple of suggestions: Make sure that your compiler is configured to emit the XML doc comments as part of the compilation job The Microsoft C# compiler switch that controls this is /doc, and can also be configured via the Build property page in a project’s settings Make sure that the XML file produced by … Read more