DocsByReflectionExtensions.cs

// Extension for System.Type enabling direct access to <summary> contents.
//
// This extension uses DocsByReflection by Jim Blackler:
//
// http://jimblackler.net/blog/?p=49
//
// (this just does the summary for types, but it should be easy to extend this
//  concept to include other members and other tags...)

    static class DocsByReflectionExtensions
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the summary from the &lt;summary&gt; tag in documentation comments of the given Type.
        /// </summary>
        public static string GetSummary(this System.Type type)
        {
            XmlElement xml = DocsByReflection.XMLFromType(type);
            var summary = xml["summary"];
            return summary != null ? summary.InnerText.Trim() : type.Name;
        }
    }