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Is there an alternative for Annotate in Visual Studio 2010?

What is Annotate? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb385979.aspx

With Annotate you do not need anymore comment your whole code with information that does not belong to it.

Visual Studio 2010 - Annotate

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  • right click on your solution file and then click "Annotate". – Rookian May 13 '11 at 10:57
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    Not sure what you're asking. Why do you need an alternative? just use Annotate... – Dylan Smith May 14 '11 at 00:55
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    Anotate has bugs and in my opinion the user interface could be better. i. e. grouping and coloring code that are related to the same workitems, there are no line numbers, and why is there an separate "Annotate" window that is not editable instead of just showing the workitems on the left sight and using the edtiable code window? – Rookian May 14 '11 at 09:07
  • I wish I had TFS so I could use VS Annotate... #firstWorldProblems... but yeah, I can't help you with the color coding or the line numbers (though there's no option in tools->Text Editor?), but I find myself wondering what you're hoping would be "editable instead of just showing the workitems" - doesn't Annotate merely show the check-in comments metadata surrounding each change? are you trying to use Annotate instead of inline comments to explain your code? I don't think that's what Annotate was intended for - isn't it the analog of SVN Blame (easy access to source-control metadata)? – Code Jockey Apr 21 '14 at 18:24
  • In more/other words, are you suggesting that you should be able to edit someone else's check in comments for a given change? Only your comments? What if that check-in comment applies to more than one file or more than one section of the same file? Would the changeset get "split"? I think you may have something clear in your mind that you want (and it may even be a valuable thing if it can be found/implemented), but if I understand what you want, I don't think Annotate is that at all... – Code Jockey Apr 21 '14 at 18:28
  • Reading your comment again, I think I may see that you are desiring an "Annotate overlay" of sorts - an indication of "who did what, where, when and why?" that sits on top of (or beside) the already loaded code window, rather than in a separate, new window. If so, I hear you, but perhaps the complexities of computing the annotations on every single code change (a la syntax highlighting or intellisense) might be a bit more taxing than they wanted to put into VS 2008, and they haven't gotten around to improving it yet? maybe in VS 2015/2016/2017 (?) who knows? – Code Jockey Apr 21 '14 at 18:34

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