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I had to reinstall all my development tools after a hard drive failure and I'm having a problem with Visual Studio.
I had a bunch of //TODO: items scattered throughout my projects and I can't get them to show up in my Task List under the User Tasks. I restarted Visual Studio to no effect, then I checked the tokens in the Task List settings and TODO is listed.
Any idea on how I can get them to be listed again? I don't remember having to change any settings last time I installed VS to get this to work.
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Also, if your TODOs use a different string than TODO , you can make those show upin the task list as well by going to Tools->Options->Task List and adding items to the "Token list:" there (along with priority). Visual Studio will generate a small comment block when you type three slashes: ///, that's about it.
Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code. Use Task List to track code comments that use tokens such as TODO and HACK , or custom tokens, and to manage shortcuts that take you directly to a predefined location in code. Click on the item in the list to go to its location in the source code. Note.
Task list is nothing but an integrated to-do list within the Visual Studio framework. We can use Task list feature of VS framework to create 3 types of tasks. Comments. Shortcuts. User Tasks.
I had the same issue, after reading around (https://www.simba.com/blog/visual-studio-tip-enabling-todo-tasks/), I found this worked (in VS2019):
From Tools->Options->Text Editor>C/C++>View, ensure that "Enumerate Comment Tasks" is set to True under the Miscellaneous heading.
Once you press OK, I refreshed by adding a tag and et voila, the TODO items appeared in the task list window.
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An easy way to find any TODO items is to simply use the Find in Files search option, search for //TODO, and select the Look in option to be 'Entire Solution'.
This will look in all the files, and not just the open ones.
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