How to remove all C# methods/properties/fields "summary" comments (starting with ///) in current document in Visual Studio with one shot?

Question

How to remove all C# methods/properties/fields "summary" comments

(starting with ///)

in current document in Visual Studio with one shot?

In other words convert this:

/// <summary>
/// Very stupid comment generated with very stupid tool
/// </summary>
protected void MyMethod
{

}

Into this:

protected void MyMethod
{

}

Answer 1

How about

• Ctrl+H for quick replace
• Mark Use : Regular expressions
• Enter in Find what field following expression ^.*\/\/\/.*$\n (shortly - line with /// pattern)
• Leave Replace with field empty
• Make sure that you Look in in Current Document
• Click Replace All

Answer 2

Regex pattern ^.*\/\/\/ ?<summary>.*\n(?:^.*\/\/\/.*$\n)* will be more suitable in this case because it will match whole summary comment at once.

• ^.*\/\/\/ ?<summary>.*\n - matches line with /// <summary> text (with optional space after slashes)
• (?:)+ - non-capturing group, repeated zero or more times
• ^ - beginning of the line
• .* - any characters
• \/\/\/ - three slashes
• .* - any characters
• $ - end of line
• \n - line break symbol