Documentation

If source code is the heart of an application, documentation is its soul. Documentation is often neglected and not updated regularly. Especially when the schedule of a project is tight and there isn't much time left, people start to save the time they've lost by cutting the resources for writing documentation.

Mono and C# try to integrate documentation and code in order to minimize the work for a programmer. It's far easier to write documentation inside a program than with the help of an external editor. In addition, documentation that's inside the source is more consistent with the software itself than external texts.

C# relies on XML. Therefore, XML is used to document an application. The next example shows how XML can be used ...

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