在Visual Studio任务列表中隐藏TODO标记

Question

Our codebase has a bunch of TODO comments that no one will ever fix and that the boss refuses to remove.

I would like to hide the TODO's from the Visual Studio task list and just show my custom MEDO tags.

It appears that Visual studio will not let you remove the TODO tag from the task list. The remove button is grayed out for TODO. (You can remove all the other default tags, just not TODO.)

Does anyone know some kind of hack or something that will allow me to remove them anyway? Maybe editing some config file somewhere?

Answer 1

As you've discovered, Visual Studio won't allow you to modify the TODO token, but you can trick it by using the Priority settings to filter it out.

First, set your MEDO token to "High Priority" as shown here:

Then filter the Task List window to only show high priority items. (The filter button is hard to see on that column - you may need to widen it a bit.)

Answer 2

By default, Visual Studio includes the following tokens: HACK, TODO, UNDONE, NOTE.

All you need to do is to remove the TODO from these list of predefined tokens. (you can create your own tokens as well)

On the Tools menu, choose Options. Open the Environment folder and then choose Task List and then delete the TODO token.

So now you will continue to have TODO comments in your codebase but they will not show in your task list.