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Chapter 3, Navigating Visual Studio
#21 Never Forget a TODO Again
HACK
The task list does not always show every comment. It needs
to be configured according to what you are currently work-
ing on. If you are trying to find and fix compilation errors,
chances are that you don’t want to also see a bunch of com-
ments. What the task list displays is configurable in Visual
Studio .NET 2003 through the Show Tasks list under the
View menu in the toolbar. There are options to show just
build errors, tasks in the current file, all, or comments.
In Visual Studio 2005, the options list has moved to the task
list itself. You will now see a drop-down list at the top of the
task list that lets you choose what should be displayed in the
task list. You will also notice that errors are no longer dis-
played in the task list in Visual Studio 2005; instead, there is
a separate error list just for build errors and warnings.
For the purpose of this hack, options will need to be set to
All or Comments.
You can then click on this comment and be taken to the place where you
need to add code. The other two comments work much the same way. You
simply need to use
//HACK: and a task list item will be created for that com-
ment. You can use shortcuts to step back and forth between tasks as well.
The View.NextTask (Ctrl-Shift-F12) and View.PreviousTask (no default
shortcut) commands can be used to step through the tasks listed ...