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Offline version of .NET API browser
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Lack of proper offline access to .NET Core API Reference is really frustrating.
Describe the solution you'd like One of the best offline experience I had was with https://devdocs.io/, exposing docs to this common dev reference would be the best option.
Describe alternatives you've considered
- Even offline/online align to WHATWG support on main docs page would be incredibly useful.
- Least amount of work but also supporting my use case would be PDF with hyperlinks.
Additional context
Using dotnet core during prolonged offline session like in airplane or regions with low 3G/LTE coverage can be extremely frustrating.
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Thanks for your feedback @rwarzycha. Do you develop using Visual Studio? If so, there are offline books available for Visual Studio for a couple of docsets including .NET Core API reference.
Hi @mairaw, most of the time I'm using Visual Studio Code. Where can I find these docsets from Visual Studio 2019? I was able for all namespaces of should I download them separately.
@rwarzycha - thank you for the feedback! We definitely have room for improvement for our offline documentation experience. Tagging this for myself to investigate.
@rwarzycha for Visual Studio, this article explains how to obtain the offline books: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/help-viewer/installation
Any news on this? Is there a way to get .NET 6 API Docs for VS Code or through other means?
@philippjbauer I'll chime in as an uninvested third-party, since I no longer work at the company, but the only way to do this is to download the documentation locally and build IntelliSense files from it. mdoc might be helpful here: http://docs.go-mono.com/index.aspx?link=man:mdoc-export-msxdoc(1) (tagging @joelmartinez as the expert here).
