Get XML Documentation Comments

Question

/// 
  
///  This can have any description of the class  
/// 
  
public class MyClass {} 

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Answer 1

If you don't want to use XML comments, you can store the description as metadata using the [Description] attribute, i.e:

[Description("This can have any description of the class")]
public class MyClass {} 

You can then access the value of this attribute at run-time:

public static string GetDescription(Type t) {
    return TypeDescriptor.GetAttributes(t)
        .OfType()
        .Select(x => x.Description)
        .FirstOrDefault();
}

e.g. GetDescription(typeof(MyClass))