Really Good Visual Studio Plugin - "Ghost Doc"

I have recently become aware of a plugin for Visual Studio called Ghost Doc.  You right click on a piece of code and click "Document This" or alternatively I assigned ctrl + shft + D to do it for me.  It is that easy, and boy is it useful.  Nice and quick.

 

Download from : http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc/

 

Some Examples

The context menu

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A property documented

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OK, not completely there, but a total time saver none the less.

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While I have complete respect for the person who made this plugin, it would have been nice to see it pick up on any exceptions which are thrown.  When intellisense sparks off, I love seeing what potential exceptions could be thrown so I can code for any circumstance nice and cleanly.  Again, as I say, this is a rally useful tool and I feel it is a great time saver!

 

UPDATE:

LOL I have unknowingly stumbled on a little cool piece of this plugin.  Notice in my last screen shot I called it TestThisMethod.  The documentation actually breaks that into a grammatical sentence "Tests the this method," which I have to applaud!  WELL DONE GHOST DOC!! lol

 

Cheers,

 

Andrew

Published Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:32 PM by REA_ANDREW

Comments

# re: Really Good Visual Studio Plugin - "Ghost Doc"

Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:31 AM by pbz

Or maybe it picks up from the summary? :)

# re: Really Good Visual Studio Plugin - "Ghost Doc"

Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:18 PM by Dave T

We went hog wild with that plugin. Gosh I wish I hadn't of done that. Commmenting methods for the sake of commenting them is rather "noisy". Now I have to scroll by all this useless help information.

# re: Really Good Visual Studio Plugin - "Ghost Doc"

Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:22 PM by REA_ANDREW

Its cool int it!  Really nice plugin! :-)

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