[.net] Comments and attributes

Original Post

Jonas B

Apr 29, 2006 at 6:16 PM

Is there a way to access code comments such as ///

/// Description of property ///

in runtime? I could add a [Description()] attribute but then I'd have to maintain two instances of the same text.

thezbuffer

Apr 29, 2006 at 6:23 PM

No comments are not preserved in the .Net meta data.

If they are XML comments they are pushed out to a separate xml file as part of the build process and that xml file is what the intelli sense picks up. See http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=tooltipsxmldocumentation⟨=en

Jonas B

Apr 29, 2006 at 6:27 PM

Too bad - thanks Z. Maybe I'll look into how to add a build step that can copy comments into Descriptions automatically, should be doable.

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