Help reflecting off XML help strings

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  Yes this can be done using managed code, but that's certainly not part of System.Reflection. It is simply a matter of parsing the XML file and matching the documentation for a type with the one you currently browse.
  
  The (so regretted) NDoc project ( http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/ ) used to do this for documentation generation purpose.
  
  For the framework's assemblies, the corresponding XML are in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 (for .NET 2.0).

  odalet October 23, 2008 18:07

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  This is exactly what we ended up doing.
  
  Just thought it was strange that Reflector did this when the data is not part of System.Reflection.
  
  Thanks for the reply.

  cl0306 October 24, 2008 04:11

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  cl0306 wrote:

  As of reflector version 5 there are summary comments displayed at the bottom of the right panel of dissassembler output.

  
  This used to work, but the XML documentation files are now installed in a locale-specific subdirectory. I'm guessing this happened with .NET2sp1 or VS2008sp1. Reflector doesn't look in the new location, so it only shows the comments if the old .xml files have somehow been left installed.

  acorey February 20, 2009 09:11

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  that's really useful to know. Thanks.

  cl0306 February 20, 2009 09:52

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