How do I automatically generate documentation/comments in Monodevelop?

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Monodevelop automatically generates verbose documentation for functions and classes if "///" is typed in the appropriate place, upon typing the third '/'.

I want it to go over all of my code, though - I thought there was some button somewhere, and I looked around in the drop-down menus, tried right-clicking file names, etc. I could not find such an option - does it not exist? I could not find a plugin that does that either.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 08 '15 at 19:33

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Try to use Edit-> Document buffer.

It will make /// comments for all your public methods/classes without any comment upon it in current file.

It won't work if you have // comment upon method/class or for protected/private elements.

answered Sep 08 '15 at 19:33

Pawel_J

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Thanks. Any idea if there's a way to hotkey this for a specific function? Like click on function and do a hotkey to have it add this. – Adam B Nov 06 '17 at 18:29

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 15 '14 at 09:44

It is not possible. Your options are:

Manually typing three slashes before each and every function
Using an external tool

Online searches have not come up with any plugins for monodevelop that would do that, and the option does not exist in the vanilla IDE.

How do I automatically generate documentation/comments in Monodevelop?

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