Hide XML comments in Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.5.1)

Question

When collapsing the XML comments for methods etc. It used to be that the summary was hidden. As I would like it to be. Then in VS2015 they broke this. I asked a similar question about VS2015 and got a nice workaround here - to use <para>.

The workaround continued working in VS2017 until now. Now I updated to version 15.5.1 and the workaround is broken, (why??...) and I can't find a setting to change that.

Is there one somewhere?

So, you want to collapse the whole XML comments, right? Or only the
part? — koelkastfilosoof, Dec 08 '17 at 13:17
@koelkastfilosoof The whole thing. I mentioned the summary because the rest is collapsed now, the only problem is the summary. — ispiro, Dec 08 '17 at 13:53
Hmm, still works on my VS, do you have any plugins installed? And do you have an example XML doc that doesn't work? — koelkastfilosoof, Dec 08 '17 at 13:55

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 31 '18 at 03:08

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The way XML comments clutter up the code has always bothered me. In the past I've tried a few different Visual Studio Extensions and they've always sucked.

However, I just installed NoComment and it seems to do the job. I'm running Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.3.

While I was looking for this I came across your question, so I thought I'd provide an answer. Hopefully you'll find it helpful :)

answered Jul 31 '18 at 03:08

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Just added NoComment through Visual Studio Marketplace. It works great! – LazyDog Aug 21 '18 at 16:59
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This extension does not use async load, so it no longer works in VS2019. – Aaroninus Jul 03 '19 at 14:25

Galacticai · Answer 2 · 2021-05-13T14:46:23.673

Since NoComment is no longer supported. I found Collapse Comments is the closest extension.

It works perfectly on Visual Studio 2019. It does a similar act of hiding xml comments. With options to hide small (single-line), long (multi-lines), and documentation (xml) comments.

Choose what you want to hide in the toolbar that you will see after installing the extension.

Click on the comment icon to show, click somewhere else and it will auto hide.

Quote of features the listed features by the developer in readme.md

Ctrl+M, Ctrl+C collapses all comments (and using/Import statements)

Ctrl+M, Ctrl+D expands all comments and closes all other areas

Works with C#, VB, and XML comments

Can also collapse (or expand) using/import directives

Can be configured to collapse comments when a document is opened

Hide XML comments in Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.5.1)

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