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C# equivalent of pydoc

Visual Studio is not present at my work location and I am using Notepad++ for the development. I am aware of MSDN, but I want to browse the documentation from command line like in Python.

In Python, you can browse the documentation for a module or function or like this:

$ pydoc raw_input

gives

Help on built-in function raw_input in module __builtin__:

raw_input(...)
    raw_input([prompt]) -> string

    Read a string from standard input.  The trailing newline is stripped.
    If the user hits EOF (Unix: Ctl-D, Windows: Ctl-Z+Return), raise EOFError.
    On Unix, GNU readline is used if enabled.  The prompt string, if given,
    is printed without a trailing newline before reading.

I want to find out if there is something similar for C# where I can do the following:

$ doc ReadLine

and I get some help on the Console.ReadLine method.

Is there a way to do this?

Solution

  • There is no command line/console help viewer for MSDN content.

    The closest you can get (that I know of), is the Package This project that will download MSDN content and make a CHM out of it.