Format C# Source Code with Hyperlinks to Reference Library Documentation

Question

I'm wondering if anyone has done this already.

I want to format C# source code in HTML. But with a twist! I want to turn the names of all types and methods that appear in the code into hyperlinks to the MSDN Library documentation of the types and methods.

To do a good job, the data types of variables and expressions needs to be known, just like how the C# compiler does it. So it's a tall order. If something like this is not available, please point me to any free libraries that can generate a parsed tree of the C# source code in sufficient detail to do this task. (In fact, I'd like to know about such a standalone parser library even if the full solution I am asking for already exists.)

This kind of utility might benefit blogs and forums -- maybe even Stack Overflow!

Answer 1

Have you checked out Docu? It's an open source library that converts .net documentation into HTML documents.

Answer 2

I'd suggest using the Visual Studio SDK.