Question

Case: One source file has a comment in it that is directly linked to a comment in another source file (it says see line 315 in xxx.cs for more information). The problem with this approach is that the comment on line 315 may not be at that line number in the future. Is there a way to link comments together in an IDE? (currently using Visual Studio 2010, but use other IDEs from time to time)

Answer 1

You can try this addin (I haven’t used this):

http://hyperaddin.codeplex.com/

Besides this addin, the only thing I can think of is using a file link to directly go to the linked file; something like:

// ...
// See file://path_to_file
//...

The link will be converted to an actual link that you can click using Ctrl+Left Click but it won’t take you to a given line number – it just opens the file.

The path can be a relative file path or a full file path – full paths work best if all team members use the same folder structure in the project. For example:

// file://w:/projects/GUI/frmMain.cs