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Where do the type/member/parameter descriptions that you see in the Intellisense bubble come from? Are they stored in type attributes?
EDIT: I’m specifically interested in the built-in types.
The .Net Framework provides an XML documentation file for the shipped assemblies. The IDE reads these documentation files in order to get the descriptions and tooltips for the built-in types.
This documentation is typically, but not always, stored in a sub-directory of the framework intsall point. For instance on my machine the files are stored in the directory C:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\en.
There is one XML file per assembly shipped in the framework.