What is the meaning of XML tags "see "and "seealso" in C# in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

When you work in Visual Studio 2010 and write a comment on a method and click enter Visual Studio 2010 allows you to create "see" and "see also" XML comments.

If you type in comment "see" and press TAB then it looks like

/// <see cref=""/>
/// <seealso cref=""/> 

What is meaning of it in C#?

Answer 1

Those elements are used for documentation creation. If you look at MSDN you will find several links in class descriptions that refer to other types.

Edit See http://www.sandcastledocs.com/ as a sample app to create those help files.

Greets Flo

Answer 2

Both are XML documentation tags that are compiler verified.

<see> is for placing links directly in the text.

<seealso> is to place text in the "See Also" section.

See how they are used in this example.

Answer 3

A RTFM question.

See and SeeAlso turn into references to other classes in the generated documentation, according to the .NET xml documentation standard.

Please read http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5ast78ax.aspx for more information about tags available.

Note that in addition to that, Sandcaslte also supports on subclasses, copying in the documentation from the base class.