Assigning Description Attributes to class methods

[Sergey Poberezovskiy]

Hi,

When I create a dll in VB6 I normally define description
to every method, so that it could be seen in the Object
Browser (by user/developer). I strongly beleive that this
is still possible to do in .Net - I just cannot seem to
find how...

Could someone please help?..

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

When I create a dll in VB6 I normally define description
to every method, so that it could be seen in the Object
Browser (by user/developer). I strongly beleive that this
is still possible to do in .Net - I just cannot seem to
find how...

DescriptionAttribute Class (.NET Framework)
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...ponentModelDescriptionAttributeClassTopic.asp>

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Herfried K. Wagner
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[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Sergey,
There's the older, not as nice "XML Documentation Tool" at
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/vb/

Then there's the newer, nicer "VB Commenter" at
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide/, its nicer in that its an Add-In to
VS.NET that works as you type & compile the source.

There are a couple of others, only I do not have links handy. Searching
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=microsoft.public.dotnet
may turn up something.

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[Sergey Poberezovskiy]

Herfield,

When I try to use something like the following (example
from the link you refer to):
<Description("")> Public Shared ReadOnly Property
ConnectionString() As String
...
End Property

I receive the error saying that "type 'Description' is not
defined.";
I have tried to use different attributes, like
System.IO.IODescriptionAttribute, or
System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute - the compiler
does not complain, but those attributes do not show up in
the Object Browser when I reference the dll. And that is
my problem.

It may be working fine when you create a custome control -
I do not know as I have not tried, but I just need a code
library component.