Today I’d like to show some more enhancements to the SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on for WPF/Silverlight, coming in the next build: documentation comment display for types/members defined in source code.
Types
In the Silverlight SyntaxEditor screenshot above, you can see the mouse is hovered over a reference to the ConsoleWriter class. Our add-on shows a quick info tip containing information about the type, and now even includes the XML comment summary for the type as well.
Members
In the Silverlight SyntaxEditor screenshot above, we now hover over the NewLine method. Again quick info shows and the member’s summary documentation shows.
Summary
Right now, the XML documentation comments will show only for types/member defined in source code. We have updates planned to also support similar documentation comment display features for types/member defined in referenced assemblies as well.
These sort of documentation inclusion features really make the quick info tips more effective for end users.
The features displayed above will be available in the next WPF Studio and Silverlight Studio maintenance releases.