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What’s the difference between // comments, /* */ comments and /// comments?

Riya Sehgal

Hello Guys,

Can you explain,

What's the difference between // comments, /* */ comments and /// comments?

Thanks

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15y ago
Accepted answer
// Single line comment.

/* */ is used to comment an entire block like functions/ more than one line.

/*
this
is the same
for block comment
*/

/// As Sam said, is used to generate the xml documentation.

Hope you understood the difference.
Sam Hobbs15y ago
No difference. Some beginners become distracted by unimportant details such as this.

The triple-slash ("///") are for XML comments that the Visual Studio IDE does special things for. The other two are consistent with C/C++ so C# does the same. If it was important, you could research the history of C to determine why the two types of comments exist.