Procedure description attribute

[rubberduck-vba]

Procedure description attribute

[retailcoder]

Again (sorry for all the notifications!), @ckuhn203 is the SCI code responsible for exporting/importing modules decoupled enough to be reused for this?

[rubberduck203]

Yes. Absolutely. It's implemented through VBE extensions. IIRC it's even located in the VBE project.

[retailcoder]

As of yesterday, we're reading these attributes into Declaration objects. I feel like delaying writing to 2.x, there's really quite a bit of work left to do with the other core things.

[retailcoder]

Per linked issue, this will be implemented as annotations:

'@ModuleAttribute.VB_Description("This module is responsible for XYZ")
'@MemberAttribute.VB_Description("This procedure is responsible for XYZ")

Or:

'@Description("This module is responsible for XYZ")

The @Description annotation would be context-sensitive and become a module attribute when found in the declarations section, or a member attribute when found in a procedure.

This annotation will require an inspection to ensure only one attribute is created per scope.