Get XML Documentation Comments

Question

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

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Answer 1

You can't get the XML documentation from reflection, since it is not generated into the assembly. It is generated to a separate XML file, which you can open and read from your application. (Distribution might be an issue, since the XML file is generated after the assembly was compiled, so you can't include it as resource in the assembly itself.)

An alternative solution might be to create a special attribute, which you can fill and read. Something like:

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

The problem with that solution is that it doesn't generate the documentation XML, so you have no IntelliSense, etc.