Visual Studio 2019 Javascript XML Comments not showing

Question

I just installed Visual Studio 2019 Community Version 16.9.5.

I created a brand new ASP.net Web-App-Project for VB.net.

In that project i added a new javascript-file.

Now i write a javascript function with xml comments like:

function test(a) {  
    /// <summary>  
    /// This is a test  
    /// </summary>  
    /// <param name="a">Test a</param>    
}  

Prior to VS2019 i worked with VS2013.

In VS2013 when i type "test(" in VS2013 the XML-comments will show as expected like this

In VS2019 i only get this

In a vb.net file in the same project the comments show, only in JS the don't show.

Do i have to kind of enable the XML comments for JS somewhere in the VS settings or have to install an addon?

Answer 1

Try this:

/** This is a test. */
function test1(a) 
{

}

and this:

/** 
 *  This is a test. 
 *  @param {string} a - the parameter.
 */
function test2(a) 
{

}

It seems that Visual Studio now uses “JSDoc” notations.

Answer 2

Thanks Viorel-1 - that was it!

But is there a kind of backwards compatibility mode that i can activate, an addon for VS, or an import-function that automatically translates the old notation into the new one?

I have developed an own javascript-framework with heavy use of xml-commets for all the functions of the framework.
These comments are all in the VS2013 notation and i would be pretty annoying to translate them all by hand.