How do i get the description from a object member programmaticly?
If i use the built in Object Browser in Visual Studio i can browse a specific object and get a human redable description for every object. For example browsing {} System.Text.RegularExpressions and choosing the “Match(string)” member would give me the following description in the lower right pane of the Object Browser:
public System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match Match(string input)
Member of System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex
Summary:
Searches the specified input string for the first occurrence of the regular expression specified in the System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex constructor.
Parameters:
input: The string to search for a match.
Returns:
An object that contains information about the match.
Exceptions:
System.ArgumentNullException: input is null.
How can i get a Console application in C# to output the same information? I have tried with both reflections and enums but have not manage to work it out. I have search in the matter but since I don’t know what i should be searching for i have found nothing to point me in the right direction.
Thanks
Wylon
You would need the generated XML file for that, and look up your information in that. The comment data does not get embedded into compiled assemblies.