what is XML documentation in project options

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lingzhou
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what is XML documentation in project options

Post by lingzhou » Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:30 pm

Open a project, choose "project - project options" , in the compiling tab, output section, there is check mark for XML documentation, if checked path will be bin\Debug\Projectname.xml

what is this used for? any user guide document regarding this?

Thanks,

chrisgeorge
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Re: what is XML documentation in project options

Post by chrisgeorge » Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:05 pm

It is a C# compiler option that generates an XML file containing method documentation. if you comment your methods with /// comments, this is output in this xml file.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 71%29.aspx for more info
Chris George
Test Engineer

Red Gate Software Ltd
Cambridge