C# coding style: comments

Question

Most C# style guides recommend against the /* ... */ commenting style, in favor of // or ///. Why is the former style to be avoided?

Answer 1

I always use // for actual COMMENTS, while I save the /* */ for code I temporarily do not want to run for debugging/development purposes.

By using only //, then you can be sure you can comment out a large block of lines/methods etc without nesting comments and making your compiler cry.