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Adding Comments to Your Code

One of the simplest things you can do to reduce bugs from the start—and make tracking down existing bugs easier—is to add comments to your code. A code comment is simply a line of text that Visual C# .NET knows isn't actual code. Comment lines are stripped from the code when the project is compiled to create a distributable component, so comments don't affect performance. Visual C# .NET's code window shows comments as green text. This makes it easier to read and understand procedures. You should consider adding comments to the top of each procedure stating the purpose of the procedure. In addition, you should add liberal comments throughout all procedures, detailing what's occurring in the code.

Comments are meant ...