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sparmar2000 - 09 May 2004 11:51 GMT

Hi
I am writing classes that I can wrap and give to others in the team. What would be nice is to be able to see the method description and its parameter description in VS at design time...same are what you see when are using components supplied by MS

Any help would be great...thanks in advance.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 09 May 2004 12:06 GMT

* "=?Utf-8?B?c3Bhcm1hcjIwMDA=?=" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> scripsit:

> I am writing classes that I can wrap and give to others in the
> team. What would be nice is to be able to see the method description and
> its parameter description in VS at design time...same are what you see
> when are using components supplied by MS.

For VB.NET:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/csref/html/vclrfProcessingXMLFile.asp>

Tools:

VB Commenter
<URL:http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide/>
-> "VB Commenter"

XML Documentation
<URL:http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/vb/>
-> "XML Documentation"

VBXC - VB.NET XML Commentor
<URL:http://vbxmldoc.tor-erik.net/>

NDOC (formerly DOC.NET)
<URL:http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/>

VB.DOC
<URL:http://vb-doc.sourceforge.net/>

<URL:http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=112b5449-f702-46
e2-87fa-86bdf39a17dd>

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sparmar2000 - 09 May 2004 20:11 GMT

Thanks for this Herfried

I am using VB and I experimented, but no joy. Any chace of a simple example

Thanks in advance.
Regards....

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sparmar2000 - 10 May 2004 07:11 GMT

Sorry Herfried
Ignore previous message. I was overlooking key information

Thanks for your help

Regards....

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sparmar2000 - 10 May 2004 12:06 GMT

this is a bit embarasing. I have got the tag in my code as documented using vbcommentator, but I still do not see that descriptions in VS. Can you help?

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 10 May 2004 12:30 GMT

* "=?Utf-8?B?c3Bhcm1hcjIwMDA=?=" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> scripsit:

> this is a bit embarasing. I have got the tag in my code as documented
> using vbcommentator, but I still do not see that descriptions in VS. Can
> you help?

Did the tool create the XML file with name "<Name of DLL>.dll.xml"? Is
it stored in the same folder as the DLL?

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