vb8 cool thing... hadn't seen it mentioned

[smith]

Sometimes you just notice something neat ...

You may already know this but my googling didn't show it as having been
mentioned and I thought it deserved it.

If you're like me and tried the gotdotnet vbcommenter and the fesersoft.com
vb commenting tool but gave up on both because neither gave your component
classes the intellisense popup information, did you notice that when using
the VB8 Express you got the class intellisense to work simply by supplying
an XML Documentation Summary value?

I know it's not a language thing, it's just an IDE thing, but it was a big
deal that C# could do it in Visual Studio and VB2002/2003 couldn't without
3rd party help (that I never could get to work, myself) but so many googles
popped it up as being a "reason to use C# instead" that when I noticed that
it was working it got me pretty happy.

Robert Smith
Kirkland, WA
www.smithvoice.com

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"smith" <rc********@smithvoiceTAKEOUT.com> schrieb:

I know it's not a language thing, it's just an IDE thing, but it was a big
deal that C# could do it in Visual Studio and VB2002/2003 couldn't without
3rd party help (that I never could get to work, myself) but so many
googles popped it up as being a "reason to use C# instead" that when I
noticed that it was working it got me pretty happy.

That's indeed a cool feature. Especially the ability to "debug" XML
comments is a great thing.

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