Question

Is it possible to configure Visual Studio 2012 to show documentation as in Eclipse ?

Visual studio

Eclipse

Answer 1

Normally IntelliSense would appear and gives you hints to the source, you’re about to use. If you want to get Information about your own sourcecode, you need to make marks on the Methods, Fields or Properties to tell IntelliSense that this info should be displayed.

Copy paste this small method and try to use it. You will notice IntelliSense give’s you hints to use it:

/// <summary>
/// Add a number to another
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">start value</param>
/// <param name="b">new int to add</param>
/// <returns>addition of a and b</returns>
private int AddNumber(int a, int b)
{
   return a + b;
}

If this wont fit your needs, try ReSharper from JetBrains. It has a bunch of functions to help you write code faster.