Version: VS2005 I used the "pull members up" refactoring, but regardless of the "doc comments" setting my doc comments are lost. Outline of the example where it went wrong: class A { ... } public sealed class B : A { ... /// <summary> ... // ... /// all doc comments /// ... protected object MakeObject(Type type, string value) { ... } } Note: I already knew I was going to pull it up, so I made the method protected, even though that is not allowed in sealed classes. But i don't think that this influenced this behaviour.