Visual Studio macOS can't generate HTML documentation for Xamarin.Forms app

Question

I have created a Xamarin.Forms application on a Mac, and I understand that there's a way to generate the methods and classes documentation into HTML. But most of the tools mentioned online do not seem to work on Visual Studio for macOS.

I've tried the recommended eVisual Studio Extensions MacOS version of Visual Studio does not seem to be able to implement Visual Studio extensions ( .vsix files).

Is there a way to generate documentation in Visual Studio? Or do I have to move the project to a Windows machine with Visual Studio to Generate the docs?

Answer 1

There are a number of cross-platform html generation tools that support the XML document schema that MSBuild produces via:

• globally in a solution via GenerateDocumentationFile in a prop file
• the DocumentationFile filename property in individual projects .csproj

Tools such as Doxygen, DocFX, etc.. run on Windows|macOS|Linux, but these tools, outside of Windows, are mainly cmd-line based.

The ones that I use:

• https://dotnet.github.io/docfx/
• http://www.doxygen.nl

Do a Google/Bing for more alternatives.