task-comments.md

title	description	author	ms.author	ms.date	ms.assetid
Task Comments	Adding task comments to your code	jmatthiesen	jomatthi	11/09/2020	562DCB46-D8FA-4DC4-AAEA-F274448C4CD2

Task Comments

When writing code, it's standard practice to explicitly comment unfinished or questionable code or quick workarounds with warnings. The default signal tokens provided by Visual Studio for Mac are TODO, HACK, FIXME, and UNDONE. Personalized tokens can be defined under Visual Studio > Preferences > Environment > Tasks, as illustrated in the following image:

To add a new task comment, add a comment that includes the task keyword. For example:

//TODO: Finish this for all properties.

Visual Studio for Mac draws attention to these markers by highlighting them in the Task List window, which can be displayed using the View > Tasks menu:

See also

• Use the Task List (Visual Studio on Windows)