.NET // vs /// Comments convention

Question

I am just checking out F#, so apologies if this is a silly question, but in the VS2008 F# CTP 1.9.6.2 'Tutorial' project, both // and /// are used for commenting code.

Is there a functional difference between the two slash vs three slash commenting, or is it convention (as it appears in the tutorial code) to comment a function with /// and use // for everything else?

Answer 1

/// is for documentation comments. VS will use it when generating intellisense information.

Answer 2

Using three slashes (///) is a C# convention for XML Documentation Comments that is adopted by F# as well.

Answer 3

It's similar to /* comment */ vs /** documented comment */ in Java.

The latter works the same, but is also recognised by documentation software to be developer documentation - not just a note.