Over the years I have looked at a lot of code where the developer does not write any comments or the comments that have been written are very poor. Developers should comment their code to save time and confusion by others who read their code. It will also save you time if you need to make a modification months after you originally wrote the code. It will also help you if someone has a question about the code. Your comments will help you remember why you are performing a certain task in a specific way.

However, if you are writing comments for every line of code you write then you are not helping anyone. Your comments should explain what the code is trying to achieve. .NET makes it very simple to add comments to your code so you can not use the excuse it is too time consuming anymore. You can use the summary or remarks tags in .NET to comment your code.

Commenting your code should be part of your daily coding practice!