Hiding XML Comments in VS 2005 source code

[SD-[Inc]]

I'd really love to be able to open a source file up and have all my XML code documentation default to collapsed. I love the capability of generating professional looking help files using the XML tags in my source code. But, it really makes my code unreadable. I spend the first couple of minutes collapsing all the documentation regions whenever I open a new file. I can't find anywhere in the options to make this the default behavior. Does anyone know how to do this? Add-ins? Anything?

Thx...

 

[SD-[Inc]]

I can't believe I stumped you guys! Anyone that uses XML documentation must have this issue. Does no one document their code?

 

[Macromedic]

Take a look at this 1.1 macro

http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/2003/07/06/9741.aspx

but beware, I haven't read it all as I'm on my lunch but there could possibly be a fix with a hotfix from MS

http://www.munit.co.uk/blog/2007/07/13/visual-studio-2005-macros-stopped-working/

best of luck,
J.

 

[SD-[Inc]]

Thanks Macromedic. That doesn't completely work because I don't want regions collapsed, just comments. I did find this online though and it seems to do the trick:

http://www.helixoft.com/blog/archives/30

 

[Macromedic]

Nice, It's good to have links to unusual things like this I think.

Link added to my favourites...
J.

 

[SD-[Inc]]

If you are using XML documentation you probably want these 2 links too:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/

http://www.codeplex.com/SHFB

Installing SandCastle and using the Help File Builder you can easily build very professional looking MSDN-style documentation.

 

[Macromedic]

Appreciated, haven't looked at them yet but will take a look over the weekend;

J.