VS: Tooltip help for doxygen-style commented functions? [closed]

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I am using Visual Studio and an external library that is commented in doxygen-style. Is there any way to display doxygen documentation in the editor tooltip like DocXML?

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The VS plugin Visual Assist shows doxygen comments. From what I can see, it doesn't actually process them, but it shows doxygen comments (in their raw form) nevertheless.
There's a trial at their website.
Be warned, though. I have seen very few C++ programmers who tried it for a few days and were not begging their managers to buy it for them afterwards.

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Not that I am aware of (though I'd love to hear if there is a solution, as doxygen format is much more readable than XML).

A "workaround" I can suggest is that my AtomineerUtils add-in can bulk-convert Doxygen format comments into DocXML, which is then picked up and used for Intellisense tooltips. (And Doxygen is able to read DocXml, so you keep most of that functionality too). Currently the conversion is a fairly simple one, but I'm working on some improvements at the moment that should make it much more flexible with respect to input comment formats.