What markup format does the VS Code C++ (Cpptools) extension support for rendering definition preview hovers?

Question

I have seen this doc formatting comment in a library I added to one of my workspaces, and I see it uses something close to doxygen, and it works great off the shelf with VS code, I didn't install doxygen or any other doc generator plug in

  /**********************************************************************/
  /*!
    @brief  Apply the bracket's calibration curve to get a load in N from signal in mV
    @param  mV_reading    The loadcell's input signal in mV
  */
  /**********************************************************************/
    float _getTorqueNmFromBracketCurve(float mV_reading);

It works super well and generates nice doc when dragging over the function

Can someone point me to what is this doc and where I can find it's syntax documentation / arguments to learn to use it?

Answer 1

Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code recognize Doxygen comment formatting.

/**, /*! as well as ///-style comments are supported.

There are also extensions that can generate doxygen comments.