XML Comments Preview Addon for VS.NET

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XML Comments Preview Addon for VS.NET

I remember an addon for VS.NET which allows you to see the styled preview of an XML code comment when you mouse over. This is quite useful when typing XML comments to ensure that style is correct.

I googled but couldn't find it, can anyone remind me what was that addon? Or am I just imagining things? :)

It was demoed by ScottGu at PDC 2008, but I'm not sure the code was ever released to the public.

Mark Seemann 2010-01-08 11:05:58

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Our VSdocman has very similar feature. It has WYSIWYG comment editor where you immediately see how the result will look like. It doesn't open on mouse over, you need to use context menu or keyboard shortcut in source code. It's probably overkill for your needs but it could be useful for validating or creating your XML comments.

Peter Macej 2010-01-09 10:28:25

wow looking awesome, maybe we might buy it. we currently use ghostdoc but it's lacking some features like this.

dr. evil 2010-01-09 12:26:52

Hey Peter I've just uninstall VSDoc and it deleted all my personal settings in VS.NET (as you can imagine I'm quite pissed off, also I feel bad about not backing up my settings). Anyway, Consider this as a bug report.

dr. evil 2010-01-09 21:00:30

@Dr. evil. When installing or uninstalling add-ins for Visual Studio, the architecture of VS itself often requires a "reset" which will wipe all your settings - so blame MS, not the addin supplier (although it is quite easy to write an addin to add menu items dynamically to avoid this flaw). Use Tools->"Import and export settings" once you have set up the IDE as you like it, to save a backup.

Jason Williams 2010-01-15 21:09:28

@Jason that can be the case however I used many addons and uinstall them and none of them caused such a problem. Since it's a known issue tool should either warn with big freaking fonts or should *take care of it for the user*. That's what products are supposed to do, especially if you charge for them.

dr. evil 2010-01-16 14:20:16

Indeed. It's pretty poor, I agree - it is a known issue, and easy to work around.

Jason Williams 2010-01-16 15:46:27

@Dr. evil: I didn't want to solve this issue here publicly. So just few remarks. VSdocman add-in itself doesn't reset any VS settings. In fact, it's the first time someone reported such a problem. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience.@Jason: Indeed, VSdocman adds menu items dynamically. As you said, this reduces many uninstallation problems. But there are other things that need to be uninstalled (named commands which are needed for preserving keyboard shortcuts, help registered under VS help, ...) All of this could possibly make VS reset and we have no control over it.

Peter Macej 2010-01-19 08:06:44

@Peter - yes, it's a horrible flaw in VS. As I said in my first reply, blame MS rather than the add-in vendor!

Jason Williams 2010-01-19 13:22:12

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