Question

How do I escape keywords in XML comments like “note” in Visual Studio?

e.g.

/// See note re Create method attached to this type.   

I don’t want the text after the word “note” to turn blue.

Note this may be a Resharper feature.

Answer 1

You can stop this behaviour by editing your ReSharper options.

Go to ReSharper -> Options -> Tools -> To-do Items in Visual Studio, then alter the settings for the ‘Note’ entry in the patterns box. There are a few things you can do:

• delete the note pattern – this will stop any more occurrences from being highlighted, but will also stop any notes from appearing in the TODO explorer window
• edit the note pattern and untick the comments checkbox – this will stop notes in comments from being highlighted
• edit the note pattern and change the highlight colour to the same colour as for comments – this will stop the highlighting, but will still show the notes in the TODO explorer window

I suspect you are not using notes as TODOs, so just deleting the pattern is probably your best option.