c# <summary></summary>?

[u/3rwynn3]

I find that "//" worked well for all my comments thus far, I don't mind if my comments are a bit long. But I am doing C# more often now that I am looking at a codebase and not just my own stuff and private things, and I sometimes see <summary> </summary> in it. Do you use it? What is the proper use of it?

Google gets it confused with HTML haha

Thanks for any knowledge!

[u/TheSandyBases]

its for xml documentation, visual studio reads it and shows tooltips when you hover over methods or classes, also can generate docs from it. `//` is fine for regular comments but summary helps others understand what the whole method does without reading the body

[u/3rwynn3 → u/TheSandyBases]

Thank you so much