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[ksbrace]

Hi, Does the VB Compiler have documentation creation capabilities? In C#, you can do:

public class MyClass{
	/// <summary>
	/// <param name = cszMessage> The message to be displayed.</param>
	/// <param name = lDeviceNo> Device to be printed on</param>
	///</summary>
	public void DisplayMessages(string cszMessage,long lDeviceNo)
	{
	}
}

and it will generate some documentation about the class and methods, constants, etc.

 

[sunaj]

No.

The C# compiler stores this information in an xml file parallel to the exe/dll. You can write the xml file by hand and obtain the same functionallity (provide descriptions of properties and methods for the intellisense).
If you find that a little too much work, see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvssamp/html/vbcs_XMLComments.asp

Sunaj
'The gap between theory and practice is not as wide in theory as it is in practice'

 

[NBartomeli]

There are add-ins available for VB. one that I use is VBxc .. go to good and type it in, the click on the first link. works really well. you put ''' and it creates the comments like C# and compiles documentation along with it

 

[DotNetDoc]

It is a little ways off but the new VB.net (Whidbey) does have the documentation creation capabilities just like C#.

It is in Alpha Now.



DotNetDoc
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