Comment Inheritance for C# (actually any language)

Question

Suppose I have this interface

public interface IFoo
{
    ///<summary>
    /// Foo method
    ///</summary>
    void Foo();

    ///<summary>
    /// Bar method
    ///</summary>
    void Bar();

    ///<summary>
    /// Situation normal
    ///</summary>
    void Snafu();
}

And this class

public class Foo : IFoo
{
    public void Foo() { ... }
    public void Bar() { ... }
    public void Snafu() { ... }
}

Is there a way, or is there a tool that can let me automatically put in the comments of each member in a base class or interface?

Because I hate re-writing the same comments for each derived sub-class!

Answer 1

Java has this, and I use it all the time. Just do:

/**
 * {@inheritDoc}
 */

And the Javadoc tool figures it out.

C# has similar marker:

<inheritDoc/>

You can read more here:

http://www.ewoodruff.us/shfbdocs/html/79897974-ffc9-4b84-91a5-e50c66a0221d.htm

Answer 2

You can always use <inheritdoc /> tag.

public class Foo : IFoo
{
    /// <inheritdoc />
    public void Foo() { ... }
    /// <inheritdoc />
    public void Bar() { ... }
    /// <inheritdoc />
    public void Snafu() { ... }
}