Question

I’m wanting to know to get Intellisense in Visual Studio 2005 to display the meaning of individual enum values for a VB.NET project. This already happens for enums that are a part of the .NET library.

Is this possible? If so, how would I need to comment my enums to get this to happen?

Answer 1

In VS 2008 simply use the standard XML commenting syntax. I assume (but have no way of checking) that it’s the same in VS 2005?

    ''' <summary>
    ''' Overall description
    ''' </summary>
    Public Enum Foo AS Integer
        ''' <summary>
        ''' Specific value description
        ''' </summary>
        First,
        ''' <summary>
        ''' etc.
        ''' </summary>
        Second
    End Enum