Question

When specifying summary tag comments, is there a way with the <param> tag to note that a parameter is optional, ie. the client can supply a value or null, such as: <param name="Mime" optional="true">.

Googling has failed to provide me with a set list of attributes or allowed values.

/// <summary>
/// Sets data associated with instance
/// </summary>
/// <param name="Key">The key defining the data</param>
/// <param name="Value">The data</param>
/// <param name="Mime">The mime type of the data (optional)</param>     <----- Mark as optional

Thanks

Answer 1

No, you can’t. The only attribute being recognized by VS is the name, like that:

<param name="FileName" >The filename of the file to be loaded.</param>

The only thing that you can do – is to set xsl transform for your output document. But this won’t have any effect on Intellisense.