I'm trying to get my TODO comments to show up in the task list in Visual Studio 2010 for a C++ project, but they don't. I looked at this, but see no caveats other than the TODO comments need to be in the currently-open file. For example, creating a new Win32 console app places this:
// TODO: reference additional headers your program requires here
in a new file, stdafx.h. However, there's nothing in the task list.
I have "Comments" chosen from the drop-down in the task list, but it's always empty. And it's not this problem; I can open the file and be looking at the TODO comment in the code editor and no task is shown. This is not a problem for C# projects as TODO comments show up as designed in those projects; this appears to be an issue specific to C++ projects.
What else can I check?
This is off by default 'for performance reasons'. Tools + Options, Text Editor, C/C++, Formatting, Miscellaneous, Enumerate Comment Tasks = True. Feedback article is here.
Also note the comment in the MSDN article about task list comments:
With Visual C++ projects, the Task List displays only the comments that are found in the file that is currently active in the editor.