Visual studio and .NET tip 4:- Task reminders using visual studio

Many times we write comments in code to remind about certain tasks to be performed later and then we forget about the same as the comments gets lost in those million lines code.

Visual studio and .NET tip 4:- Task reminders using visual studio

Many times we write comments in code to remind about certain  tasks to be performed later and then  we forget about the same as the comments gets lost in those million lines code.
For instance in the below customer class you can see we have so many comments with different nature of tasks which needs attention later.  The way the below comments are currently organized can be easily lost in the coming times.

// we have still not created any properties for this class
    public class Customer
    {
         // I will come back and code this later
        public void Add()
        {
         
         }

        // For now i have done a hack to always return true
        public bool IsValid()
        {
             return true;
        }

         // This methods needs to be merged with Add method
        public void Update()
        {

        }
    }

The above comments can be grouped by using task list token and later viewed in task grid of visual studio.  In your comments you can start inserting these tokens as shown below.

// UNDONE :- we have still not created any properties for this class
    public class Customer
    {
         // I will come back and code this later
        public void Add()
        {
         
         }

        // For now i have done a hack to always return true
        public bool IsValid()
        {
             return true;
        }

         // This methods needs to be merged with Add method
        public void Update()
        {

        }
    }

Now if you click on view  task list menu you should see your comments in the task list window as shown below. The below task list view is much better as compared to scattered comments.



You can also customize the token vocabularies and priorities by clicking on tools – options – task list as shown in the below figure.