[IronPython] Help contents

Curt Hagenlocher curt at hagenlocher.org
Mon Dec 15 19:50:19 CET 2008


If you have only one version/culture, I believe you can just place the XML
doc in the same directory as the DLL.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Hernán Martínez Foffani <
hernan.martinez at ecc.es> wrote:

> It seems clear now, thank you.
>
> Reading DocBuilder.cs:GetXPathDocument(..) I assume that if I want
> to let our users to be able to get IP console help on our own C#
> libraries, we can place the XML docs in a culture subdirectory under
> the DLLs install directory, right?
>
>
> > This is generated from the XML document that lives adjacent to the
> > assembly containing the code.  For instance, mscorlib is typically
> > located someplace like
> > C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\mscorlib.dll, so the
> > XML file is taken from
> > C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\en\mscorlib.xml
> > (assuming CurrentCulture is English).
> >
> > The source code for this can be found in DocBuilder.cs
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Hernán Martínez Foffani
> > <hernan.martinez at ecc.es> wrote:
> >
> > Where does IP find the help content for .NET libraries?
> > I mean, for instance, the output of
> >  >>> help(System.DateTime.ToBoolean)
> >
> > Does it parse the Help.2 files? If so where does it look
> > for them? Only under "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\{Program Data}\Microsoft
> > Help"?
> >
>
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