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For instance, log4net.dll comes with log4net.xml. What's the use of this xml?

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They contain the comments for the code in xml format. They can be used with sandcastle to generate windows help files or MSDN style html documents.

klausbyskov
and Visual Studio needs them in order to display intellisense for the assembly.
Will
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This file contains description of the classes, methods, etc created as xml comments in the assembly.

Andrew Bezzub