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I found that opening some (but not all) projects causes a VS 15.3.5 crash when GhostDoc 5.7.17240 is enabled. Disabling the GhostDoc add-in allows VS to open without crashing. In specific, two open source projects where it's been ...

If you didn’t know that C# spell check was a thing, it is.  For one thing, you can run a normal spelling analysis on any comments in your code.  That shouldn’t surprise.  But you can also check the code itself for spelling errors. That may seem like a strange thing at first.  Wouldn’t a C#... The post How C# Spell Check Helps ...

The latest Beta of GhostDoc introduces a new feature that makes XML documentation authoring a breeze – Visual Edition for XML Comments. The number one challenge authoring XML Comments that we heard from our users has been keeping the valid XML which includes encoding HTML formatting tags, code samples, etc. Many of these don’t even...

Hi, I apologize if this has been answered before, but I couldn't find any reference to it: Is there any way to disable the generation of the <seealso> element when commenting classes? I am using the last version of GhostDoc community version.  Thanks in advance, Pedro Silva 

I'm evaluating GhostDoc and would rather it didn't autocomplete my param and summary descriptions. Is there a way to shut this off?

GhostDoc version 5.5 delivers compatibility with VS2017 RTM as well as a number of fixes: VS2017 RTM support GhostDoc is now also available as VSIX for VS2017 Documentation Hints no longer visible in the Debug mode Fixed issue wrapping lines within the <value></value> tag In the Offline Activation Preview - ...

For the last several years, I've made more and more of my living via entrepreneurial pursuits.  I started my career as a software developer and then worked my way along that career path before leaving fulltime employment to do my own thing.  These days, I consult, but I also make training content, write books, and offer ...

Editorial note: most of the GhostDoc bloopers below are a history, but they provide for a good laugh. We encourage you to share the GhostDoc goofs you have encountered – they are great for entertainment as well as give us a chance to improve the product. Some years ago, I was doing work for some client or another.  Honestly, I ...

If you haven't lived in a techie cave the last 10 years, you've probably noticed JavaScript's rise to prominence.  Actually, forget prominence.  JavaScript has risen to command consideration as today's lingua franca of modern software development. I find it sort of surreal to contemplate that, given my own backstory.  ...

Last month, I wrote a post introducing you to T4 templates.  Near the end, I included a mention of GhostDoc's use of T4 templates in automatically generating code comments.  Today, I'd like to expand on that. To recap very briefly, recall that Ghost Doc allows you to generate things like method header comments.  I ...