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How to Generate Documentation & Comments For Source Code Automatically in VSCode IDE
Jul 5, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you how to
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generate documentation and comments
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automatically for your source code
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inside your VS code. So there is an
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extension that you can install here. If
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you just go to the extensions tab and
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just type here documentation, the very
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first extension which comes right, it's
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a very popular extension which called as
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deoxy de oxygen documentation gen
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generator. It's used by almost 11
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billion developers and it lets you
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generate automatic documentation and
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comment for your source code. So if you
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have a source code file here after
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activating this plug-in, it's very easy.
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Simply go to the target file here. Let's
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suppose this is my index C cpp file
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here. So if you want to generate
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comments for it, so you simply write
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here / starst star and then press enter
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and automatically all these uh
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documentation will be generated which is
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the actual file the author. Here you can
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replace your author name, version, the
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date, current date, copyright all these
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things will be automatically inserted.
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So you just need to write
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/ star star and then press enter and
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automatically this documentation will be
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generated. So in this easy way you can
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do this process again you can do this
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if you have a certain kind of a
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function. So it will generate this
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documentation which is the parameter all
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this stuff. So if you just want to
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highlight some code slash star and
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automatically that
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it will document your code. It will
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generate the appropriate documentation
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and this comments of it like this. You
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can target any language here. It can be
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JavaScript, PHP as well. So if you have
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this you can generate this comments
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right here.
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You can see that it's very easy.
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So the extension name is de oxygenation
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documentation generator. Simply activate
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this and you can actually target any
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source code file. It can be JavaScript
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as well. So again you the syntax remains
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the same / star
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and then it will generate this
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documentation
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automatically.
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So, thank you very much for watching
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this video and also check out my website
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freemediatools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools.
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