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Wouldn't it be cool...?

This is what XML comments look like on my computer today:

Wouldn't it be cool if someday (in VS.Net 200x?) we could have something like this:

It's kind of frustrating to see computers rendering 3D worlds with 100s of frames/sec, but source code editors advancing only in very small steps...

Posted: Jul 09 2003, 07:11 PM by WeigeltRo | with 12 comment(s)
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Drew Robbins said:

I was chatting with Jeff Julian about this the other day. There should be a read mode in VS.NET similar to that in Word 2003. When in read mode, you view code with all the XML Comments rendered nicely as you show in your post. You'd also have different navigation options for getting around quickly and understanding what your reading.
# July 9, 2003 12:53 PM

Mike Gunderloy said:

You can get that today; you just need to spend the money. Take a look at http://www.sourcedyn.com/index.html for a rather advanced programmer's editor with more flexible formatting options than VS .NET.
# July 9, 2003 4:48 PM

HumanCompiler said:

Those are some really cool ideas! :)
# July 9, 2003 5:48 PM

Frans Bouma said:

Now that's what I call a good idea :)
# July 9, 2003 9:05 PM

Jamie Cansdale said:

Try combining documentor from here...
http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

With Managed Add-Ins from here...
http:/www.managedaddins.net

Also see...
http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/posts/9922.aspx

After very easily getting Documentor to run in a tool window it wouldn't take much to pull documentation out of the source when that changes and out of Documentor when changes are made there.

Have fun, Jamie.
# July 10, 2003 4:08 AM

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# June 20, 2004 9:09 PM

Stephen H. said:

This is sort of how I imagined it should be, but the big difference I had imagined is that there would be some associated shortcuts to easily add new formatting to the comment without manually entering in the markup -- a glorified xml editor.
# June 26, 2004 1:04 PM

Roland Weigelt said:

@Stephen: The idea of a read mode was brought up by Drew Robbins (first comment), not be me... I want it to be fully editable. So I definitely agree with you.
# June 26, 2004 1:26 PM

Mike Schinkel said:

I agree. THAT would be totally cool!
# July 1, 2004 1:29 AM