I have a very bad memory, this blogg helps med remember som tips and tricks that will make my life as a system developer easier. Today I have this tips:

XML Documentation Comments

This was erlier integrated in Visual Studio now it´s a hidden and for many new developers maby unknown. If you compile with the switch /doc you will have nice documentation of all you comments added with ///

Like this for example:

/// <summary> /// This class performs an important function. /// </summary>
public class MyClass{}

Read more about this feature: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b2s063f7(VS.80).aspx

C# Preprocessor Directives

A nice feature, today I want to mark a class with the preprocessor directive #warning because I want this to be there until we investigated if the class should be deleted or not. Add a //TODO is not enough a warning is stronger and forces us to dont miss this before deployment.

Read more about this here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ed8yd1ha(VS.71).aspx