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Consider this scenario, 2 interfaces, 1 generic:

public IGenericAdder<T>
{
   T Add(T, T);
}

public IIntAdder : IGenericAdder<Int32>
{
}

Is there someway that I can do XML comments on the generic add method, so that intellisense will show "Adds the Int32" if I do a:

IIntAdder foo;
foo.Add(  //Show intellisense here
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I don't think there is a way. You could:

  • Make the comment generic enough to work (ie. "Adds two items together") and let the user infer the type from the Visual Studio generated docs/tooltip.
  • Hide the T Add(T, T) method of IGenericAdder with new int Add(int, int) in IIntAdder and put specific XML docs on it that refer to the correct types (ie. "Adds two ints together").
  • Use <see cref="T"/> in the XML docs, but Visual Studio just refers to it as T.

None of these really do what you originally asked though.

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Yes, that seems to be my conclusion as well :(
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You don't need a doc comment - Visual Studio automatically fills in the generic type argument into the tooltip.

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Ye, but say I want some custom comment in the Add method, but I also want my comment to write "Int" instead of "T" where the generic parameter has been specified

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