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In this question I see that Microsoft ships the XML documentation files for the BCL. I wonder if anyone knows if there an API within .net that can be used to look this up at runtime. I know we can parse the files manually using the XML API.
The use case is that we allow custom (read 3rd party) types/assemblies to be used in our system, and when selecting these in the UI, we'd like to extract the documentation as specified by the custom type/assembly creator or if not available provide other defaults.