HelpPage xml documentation when controllers or models in different assembly

asp.net-mvc, asp.net-web-api

Solution

Thanks for the details. I am not sure if I would call this a bug in Web API as it does not inherently depend on an xml file for documentation. For example, If you have installed HelpPage, you would notice a file called `XmlDocumentationProvider.cs` under `Areas\HelpPage`. This implementation of provider looks at single xml file.

For your scenario, you could create a custom implementation of `IDocumentationProvider` & `IModelDocumentationProvider` in which based on the C# type, you can look at different xml documentation files. You could reuse most of the code in the default XmlDocumentationProvider.

Problem

Using the new webapi 2.1 bits. For some reason when I open the help page no description details appear for any properties e.g. ``` /// <summary> /// Some summary that shows correct /// </summary> [DataContract] public class MyClass { /// <summary> /// Display something..... /// </summary> [DataMember(Name = "Great")] public string MyGreatProperty { get; set; } ``` When I open the help page I can see the summary "Some summary that shows correct" however for the properties of this model none of the summaries are showing up. Does webapi 2 not support descriptions on a property?

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