Visual Studio and XML Commenting in Javascript makes “public” methods disappear in intellisense

Question

I was elated to find out that I could use XML commenting in my javascript (i.e.):

/// <summary>Determines the area of a circle based on a radius parameter.</summary>
/// <param name="Name" type="String">Give this dude a NAME!</param>
/// <returns type="Nothing">The area.</returns>

That was until I realized that after I did this, my "public" methods were no longer listed in intellisense... :-(

 this.greet = function (greeting) {
        alert(greeting + " " + this);
    } 

The above would show up when I would instantiate var thePlayer = new player('bob'); ... thePlayer. <-- greet would be listed, UNTIL I threw in the above XML comments.

Does anyone have any experience with this and a work around? Being able to comment javascript into intellisense would be very nice!

Answer 1

I think if you remove the (type="Nothing") from the returns it should show the members on a player.