Visual Studio 2005 provides a variety of new features. One of those is to provide XML comments within Visual Basic. XML based comments allows developers to add structured documentation to the code. In order to use this feature within a code file you simply place the cursor above a member in the code file and enter a single quote three time (‘’’). Once created an XML comment describing a code feature is then available within IntelliSense and includes the return type and summary information. For an example of using this feature I have created a short video that can be viewed here.
<View XML Comments with Visual Basic>
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- Anonymous
May 30, 2005
Also note that if you use the new Class Designer to create your classes and their methods, you can enter in all of this comment stuff into the class viewer without even looking at the code. This also works with C#, not just Visual Basic, and probably other managed languages as well.