How to make visual studio 2012 to show a hint about my functions on mouse over

Question

Visual studio has a feature to show some info about a function when you hold a mouse cursor over a name of a function in the code editor window.

Is there a way to show some hint about some of my own functions not only about library functions?

Answer 1

Yes - just comment your code with comments the places it expects and it should start showing them.

In the case of C++ code it expects a comment on the line above the function name in the .cpp file and/or the same in the .h file - personally I would always try for both as humans can also use these comments and find them there!

Expansion:

C++ Expects comments in C++ style i.e. // Comment immediately before the function declaration - you can continue over more lines if all start with //. N.B. Other languages may differ.