class tool tips

[scorpin]

when using microsofts class's you are awarded with a discription of what each perameter of the function is when you come to enter it, how would i do that?

 

[mutant]

This is called the XML Documentation that can be generated while coding. VB.NET right now doesnt support the generation of it but C# does.

 

[scorpin]

i keep forgetting that microsoft dosnt program vb in vb... hehe

 

[Derek Stone]

Which of course is not to say they couldn't.

 

[wyrd]

This is one reason why I use C# instead of VB. Those comments help after you've made a nice little class library and distribute it to others (or use it yourself in various projects).

 

[Volte]

You could write a utility to do it for you. The XML documentation is stored separately from the class, so you could write a utility to generate XML docs for your class.

C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\System.Windows.Forms.xml contains the docs for the Winforms classes, for example.


That may be my next project.