Comment Remover

Download this extension from the VS Gallery or get the CI build.

Remove all comments in any file with a click of a button. Can also remove #regions and preserve XML Doc comments.

See the changelog for changes and roadmap.

Features

Remove all comments in a document
Remove all XML Doc comments

Example /// <summary>

Remove all except XML Doc comments
Remove all task comments

Example // TODO: fix this

Remove all except task comments
Remove #regions

Find the commands in the Edit top level menu.

Examples

Here are some examples of before and after the comments have been removed

JSON

Before:

{
	// Single-line comment
	"foo": {
		/*
		multi
        line
        comment
		*/
		"prop": 12
	}
}

After:

{
	"foo": {
		"prop": 12
	}
}

CSharp

Before:

/// <summary>
/// Foo bar
/// </summary>
public class Class1
{
    /*
    multi
    line
    comment
    */
    void Hat()
    {
        //single-line comment 
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write(i); // same-line comment
        }
    }
}

After:

public class Class1
{
    void Hat()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write(i);   
        }
    }
}

Contribute

Check out the contribution guidelines if you want to contribute to this project.

For cloning and building this project yourself, make sure to install the Extensibility Tools 2015 extension for Visual Studio which enables some features used by this project.

License

Apache 2.0