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Offline version of .NET API browser #2144

Open rwarzycha opened 4 years ago

rwarzycha commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Lack of proper offline access to .NET Core API Reference is really frustrating.

Describe the solution you'd like One of the best offline experience I had was with https://devdocs.io/, exposing docs to this common dev reference would be the best option.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context Using dotnet core during prolonged offline session like in airplane or regions with low 3G/LTE coverage can be extremely frustrating.

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mairaw commented 4 years ago

Thanks for your feedback @rwarzycha. Do you develop using Visual Studio? If so, there are offline books available for Visual Studio for a couple of docsets including .NET Core API reference.

rwarzycha commented 4 years ago

Hi @mairaw, most of the time I'm using Visual Studio Code. Where can I find these docsets from Visual Studio 2019? I was able for all namespaces of should I download them separately.

supernova-eng commented 4 years ago

@rwarzycha - thank you for the feedback! We definitely have room for improvement for our offline documentation experience. Tagging this for myself to investigate.

mairaw commented 4 years ago

@rwarzycha for Visual Studio, this article explains how to obtain the offline books: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/help-viewer/installation

philippjbauer commented 2 years ago

Any news on this? Is there a way to get .NET 6 API Docs for VS Code or through other means?

dend commented 2 years ago

@philippjbauer I'll chime in as an uninvested third-party, since I no longer work at the company, but the only way to do this is to download the documentation locally and build IntelliSense files from it. mdoc might be helpful here: http://docs.go-mono.com/index.aspx?link=man:mdoc-export-msxdoc(1) (tagging @joelmartinez as the expert here).

philippjbauer commented 2 years ago

Thank you @dend, I'll look into this!