microsoft provides API access to documentation .NET?

[it19862]

I am interested in the documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/ All or part of it.

[BillWagner]

Hi 👋 @it19862

Can you give us more details about what you're asking for here? I'm not sure what you're asking for.

[it19862]

@BillWagner Now. I read the documentation through the browser...

Expectations. I want to access the documentation through my application.

Question. Is it possible? Do I need to parse the documentation? Or a website doc.microsoft.com provides an API?

Did I manage to clarify the situation?

[gewarren]

@it19862 Are you only interested in API reference docs, or all of the .NET documentation including overviews, tutorials, etc.?

[it19862]

@gewarren I don't know yet... But probably at the initial stage I would like to get access to such pages https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system?view=net-6.0

To the pages of the namespace object model. To get information on all objects, methods, properties, events, etc. To do this for all versions .NET

[gewarren]

I don't know of any such API for docs.microsoft.com, but you could pull that information out of the IntelliSense XML files. For example, you can find these files in this directory for .NET 6: %ProgramFiles%\dotnet\packs\Microsoft.NETCore.App.Ref\6.0.8\ref\net6.0

[MSDN-WhiteKnight]

You could also parse the raw content of API docs repo to get latest data, for example, querying https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/main/xml/System/Object.xml URL will give you System.Object docs in monodoc XML format. I have some code example for programmatically parsing XML docs here, if that helps: https://github.com/MSDN-WhiteKnight/CilTools/blob/master/CilView/Exceptions/TypeExceptionInfo.cs#L61