How can I generate a printable overview of my .NET assembly? [closed]

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I've been tasked with reviewing an existing assembly and putting together a nice public API for it. The assembly is pretty large so I'd like to get an overview of its contents printed out so that I can easily browse through it and make notes.

Are there any tools out there that could help me out with this?

I've taken a look at NDoc but this generates the documentation over numerous pages. What I want is a single document that I can punt directly at a printer.

I was thinking that I could apply my own XSLT to the XML output that NDoc creates if need be but want to make sure there aren't any tools out there already before I start doing that work.

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You could use the Framework Design Studio. Although its actual purpose is to design, review and diff framework assemblies, you can also use it to export the definitions of an assembly to a file (RTF, DOC and XML). I've used it with RTF, DOC seems to hang - at least on my box. The result will be a file with all types (classes, interfaces, etc.) in the assembly nicely colored. Method bodies and other details are omitted, but I think that you didn't want them anyway.

Here is a example showing one FDS' own assemblies as an RTF export in Word:

I should add that FDS is not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, but for doing a "one time" export of even a large assembly it should be OK.