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Asked: 2026-05-13T18:17:59+00:00

Possible Duplicate: How do I stop visual studio from automatically inserting asterisk during a

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How do I stop visual studio from automatically inserting asterisk during a block comment?

When adding a multi-line comment in Visual Studio, it automatically places an asterisk (*) at the beginning of a new line (on enter) inside the comment block. I personally find this a nuisance. Does anyone know how to disable it? Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Found this answer for you online (see here):

    This works with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008:

    1. in the IDE, go to Tools->Import and Export Settings; then Export selected environment settings; deselect everything except Options->Text Editor; save to a new file.

    2. Edit your exported settings file in some text editor. Search for the string “AutoComment”. There’s a PropertyValue tag with value 1, change it to 0, and save the file.

    3. in the IDE, import this new file using Tools->Import and Export Settings. It should stop formatting comments right away.

    To be clear, I haven’t tested it myself yet . . . please let us know if it works for you.

    Update:

    Another way, as posted in the previous question on this (linked by Rob van Groenewoud, above)

    Tools > Options… > Text Editor > C# > Advanced > Uncheck “Generate XML Documentation comments for ///”.

    (Of course, in addition to getting rid of the automatic * in block comments, this will disable the autoformatting when you type “///”, as it says.)

    It sounds like the solution I gave above does the same thing, but by editing the settings file itself instead of using the menu options.

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