Possible to have Visual Studio TODO comments in aspx/ascx files appear in task list?

Question

We develop asp.net webforms using visual studio 2008. For multilingual support, we translate all our text. However, when designing, we usually just enter the english text and

Answer 1

You do not need the <% %> on lines by themselves. This example shows what works and what does not:

<%//ToTranslate will work%>
<%/*ToTranslate will work*/%>
<!--ToTranslate won't work-->
<!--
ToTranslate won't work
-->

It may be due to the fact that what's differentiating between an HTML comment and some form of aspx comment is getting messed up by the -- because that's part of an html comment?

Answer 2

FYI if you want to do this in a .Net MVC3 razor cshtml file the syntax this:

@{
//TODO: Move this inline <style> css to a file
}

Take note: that you need to put the trailing } bracket on a new line as otherwise it will be included in the // comment. You could do it using /**/ like below and keep it all on one line but it's more typing, and a bit harder to read. My take is, if it annoys you the comment takes up 3 lines in your file, all the more motivation to fix the issue and remove it completely :)

@{/*TODO: Move this inline <style> css to a file*/}

Answer 3

It seems to me that it works fine if you put the delimiters <% and %> on a line by themselves. What I did was this: go to Tools menu and click on Options, then under Environment -> Task List add a new ToTranslate token. Click OK to accept the change. Back on the ASPX page I added the comments on a line by themselves and the code delimiters on lines by themselves.