Retrieving a Type Member Description

Question

I am writing a program that uses the System.Reflection namespace for the Microsoft.NET 4.0 Framework, however there is some information that I require that I cannot find or does not exist in the namespace.

In Visual Studio, when accessing members like IntelliSense provides a brief description of the member. For example, the System.Object.Equals method has a description: "Determines whether the specified System.Object matches the current System.Object."

Are there any methods / properties in the structure that allow me to get the type description in the assembly?

thanks

Answer 1

This information is not inside the assembly, but is obtained from the .xml foo.dll file - that is, foo.dll may have foo.dll.xml . You will need to request data from there, but note that in many cases this data is not deployed with third-party DLLs.