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Günther Meusburger10-Dec-03 20:05
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Mesrop Simonian11-Dec-03 13:01
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After a lot of pondering I finally decided to turn to my highest VB authority on this matter - Francesco Balena. Here's what he said for all those who asked me to keep them posted on this matter:

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That feature is based on descriptions held in an XML file held in the same directory as the DLL containing the actual types and methods. To see what I mean, see all the DLLs and the pairing XML files in the C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322 folder

The guys that say that it can be done only with C# are partially right, because C# makes it _easier_ to generate the XML files that the Object Browser (and Intellisense) use to store descriptions of each methods. The C# compiler has an option that gathers all the comments interspersed in code (in a special format) and generates the XML file that VS.NET uses.

With VB you must generate this file manually. However, there is a tool at http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/vb/ that lets you do that with VB as well.

It is true (unfortunately) that C# can do things that VB can't - most notably, operator overloading, unsigned integers, and unsafe code - but this feature isn't one of those.

regards,

Francesco

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