Questions tagged [xml-documentation]

XML documentation is the way to generate automatic documentation from comments inside the code, to an XML formatted file that can be shown with any method, for e.g. a web page.

XML documentation are comments that form the documentation for C# programs. They are so called because they contain nested XML fragments. See Microsoft's XML Documentation Comments (C# Programming Guide) for more details.

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Matching Generic Methods to XMLDoc Output With Reflection

I'm basically trying to match up reflected members in my library with the XMLDoc that was outputted alongside it. When coming across generic types, I'm having a little trouble. So, for example, take this class: public class GenericClass { …
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Enabling XML style documentation for a new project type in Visual Studio

How do I enable XML style documentation for a new project type I'm creating in Visual Studio? Also, is there a way I can edit an existing project type to allow XML style documentation (NOT talking about checking the XML documentation file in the…
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Cannot see xml comments from dll in a project

I created a .dll with xml commented functions and subs, like: ''' ''' Gets the Path of this assembly ''' ''' Assemblypath ''' Public Function GetactiveProgrammPath()…
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Visual Studio XML Documentation...library?

Is there a software/app that could stored all our VS2008 XML documentation comments files in one place and could act as a library for all this doc ? We are creating many web projects that are all interconnected, and we need to put in 1 place all the…
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How does the return info of the XML documentation show?

I love the XML documentation feature, the always shows up, and recently I found out how to make the function argument info in visible in Intellisense by setting an Output Path in the Build tab of the property page of a class…
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Hide XML documentation

I hate comments of any kind, esp. large chunks of XML documentation that are mixed up with code. It makes for a very difficult reading of code. Is there a tool that can hide the XML documentation in a project?
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WCF - Add service reference XML docs

We have our projects set to build documentation files, but the Add Service Reference tool in Visual Studio creates files with no XML docs. This results in a ton of build warnings, which we'd like to avoid. Is there a way to get Add Service Reference…
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merged DLLs, Intellisense not picking up separate XML doc files

I use ILMerge to merge several of my C# project DLLs into a single DLL for the whole solution. I have each project produce a .XML file of its documentation for Intellisense, and I'm having trouble getting those comments to show up when I try to use…
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Memory issue using Delphi7 XMLDoc

I'm using Delphi 7 XMLDoc unit for building a protocol definition on XML base, that is the protocol is defined in an XML file and some objects are get information from this XML for breaking-down and constructing ISO8583 messages delivered on TCP/IP.…
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What's the meaning of the hashes at Enumerations?

I use GhostDoc for the XML-Documentation of my code, and it has a neat "auto-document"-function I use quite often, so now I used it on an enumeration and it came up with some strange hash-code I don't quite understand. What is it for? Looks sort of…
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Which tool to use for C/C++ documentation?

Which tool is better for documentation of C,C++ and Java code out of 'Docbook' or 'doxygen' or any Can you please tell me any other tool?
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Converting string of XML with in it to XML

I am having issues with converting string to xml.string is in this format String s = "
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Is there a way to document side-effects of a method using the .NET XML documentation tags in the source?

Is there a way to document side-effects of a method using the .NET XML documentation tags in the source? If there is no tag specifically for this, what is the recommended way to document side-effects?
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c# xmlnode select single node to remove

I have an XML document that has nodes/values like this: Auto Trans Diesel Engine I need to select a…
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How to populate a ListBox with Xml attributes from an Xml REST query?

I am using a wiki api to create a C# program where a user types in a keyword and searches, (if the user searches database the XML url would be:…
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