XML Documentation (C#)

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2003/.NET Framework 1.1

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C# Programmer's Reference

XML Documentation

In Visual C# you can document the code you write using XML. C# is the only programming language in Visual Studio .NET with this feature. For details on creating an XML file with documentation comments, see the following topics.

For information about	See
The C# compiler option to use	/doc (Process Documentation Comments)
Tags you can use to provide commonly used functionality in documentation	Recommended Tags for Documentation Comments
The ID strings that the compiler produces to identify the constructs in your code	Processing the XML File
How to delimit documentation tags	Delimiters for Documentation Tags
How to document a type	XML Documentation Tutorial
Links to information about XML as it relates to Visual Studio feature areas	XML in Visual Studio

See Commenting Code for information on how Visual Studio will display a report on the structure of your code, to include XML Documentation comments.

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