What is the best way to learn a new library written in C# using Visual Studio 2010 [closed]

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I recently found the need to learn a new library that didn't come with extensive documentation for a change. The code is written in C# and I am using Visual Studio 2010 as my editor. The library that I am trying to learn did come with a sample driver, but it is fairly large and complex as well. I was wondering if there are any facilities in VS that would allow me to watch the code as it is executing so that I learn as it runs.

Is anyone aware of any tools that I should be looking at in VS and additionally, in general can you specify any other methods that I might use to quickly learn how to use new libraries.

Thanks

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Write learning tests.

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Red Gate's Reflector is a must have for looking into 3rd party library's and there are a couple plugins for it (FileDisassembler is one) that allow you to save your dissasembled files so that you can step through the code.

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You can set a BreakPoint at any line you you want the program to stop at, and when you run it in debug mode, you will then be able to execute a single line of code at a time, by pressing F11 or F10 (F10 does not go deeper into inner function calls).