tokens in visual studio: HACK, TODO... any other?

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+4 Q:

what tokens do you find useful in visual studio? (visual studio 2010 → environment → task list → tokens)

currently i have only:

(only these - deleted some default ones)

are you using any others?

are you covering any other important thing with comment tokens?

any best practices? thnx

+1 A:

Another built-in is NOTE.

chibacity 2010-05-31 15:09:49

yeah, didn't like it since isn't any comment a NOTE somehow?

b0x0rz 2010-05-31 15:10:32

Agreed, but I try not to use comments at all except for NOTE. If I have anything else, it goes into the tracking system. In my case JIRA.

chibacity 2010-05-31 15:13:04

ah, i see, i use comments a bit more :P

b0x0rz 2010-05-31 15:18:28

I'm not a big fan of the old green ink :)

chibacity 2010-05-31 15:25:36

+2 A:

Here's the ones I use:

TODO: the functionality is not yet implemented
FIXME: the code should be modified/refactored to achieve some goal (higher maintainability, better performance, and so on)
BUG: the code has a known bug

Enrico Campidoglio 2010-05-31 15:14:46

i like fixme and bug :) i use hack for fixme. will add bug!

b0x0rz 2010-05-31 15:16:20

I use the same :) -- I do subcatagories for my FIXME's, i.e.: FIXME - Performance.

cwap 2010-05-31 15:16:28

Yup. And TODO - TRANSLATE. We use Mantis#123 to refer to our bugtracking system and the corresponding number.

Konerak 2010-05-31 15:43:19

+2 A:

Vim automatically highlights XXX, which happens to be my token of choice for the ease of typing it.

Use XXX in a comment to flag something that is bogus but works. Use FIXME to flag something that is bogus and broken.

Mark Rushakoff 2010-05-31 15:18:12

nice tip about vim. didn't know that.

b0x0rz 2010-05-31 15:22:33

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