Wouldn't it be cool...?

Wednesday, July 9, 2003

This is what XML comments look like on my computer today:

Wouldn't it be cool if someday (in VS.Net 200x?) we could have something like this:

It's kind of frustrating to see computers rendering 3D worlds with 100s of frames/sec, but source code editors advancing only in very small steps...

6 Comments

I was chatting with Jeff Julian about this the other day. There should be a read mode in VS.NET similar to that in Word 2003. When in read mode, you view code with all the XML Comments rendered nicely as you show in your post. You'd also have different navigation options for getting around quickly and understanding what your reading.

Drew Robbins - Wednesday, July 9, 2003 6:53:00 PM

Those are some really cool ideas! :)

HumanCompiler - Wednesday, July 9, 2003 11:48:00 PM

Now that's what I call a good idea :)

Frans Bouma - Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:05:00 AM

This is sort of how I imagined it should be, but the big difference I had imagined is that there would be some associated shortcuts to easily add new formatting to the comment without manually entering in the markup -- a glorified xml editor.

Stephen H. - Saturday, June 26, 2004 7:04:00 PM

@Stephen: The idea of a read mode was brought up by Drew Robbins (first comment), not be me... I want it to be fully editable. So I definitely agree with you.

Roland Weigelt - Saturday, June 26, 2004 7:26:00 PM

I agree. THAT would be totally cool!

Mike Schinkel - Thursday, July 1, 2004 7:29:00 AM

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