I was playing with SOS and SOSEX debugging extensions and wanted to get whole help content, not just “command by command”

Turns out, it is easy, since SOS and SOSEX authors kept it simple and embedded help as text resources.  Basically you can even open SOS.dll in Notepad But there is a better way.

Open SOS.dll in Visual Studio (File –> Open –> File –> enter full path to a particular version of SOS.dll). Because it is dll, Visual Studio opens it in resource editor. There are just two nodes, Text and Version

Double click on “DOCUMENTATION” – viola, that’s what I’m looking for

Now, lets save it as text file  –> Right click on DOCUMENTATION, select Export, enter file name (i.e. SOS-Help.txt), press Enter, done!

Now same trick works for SOSEX. Help is under TEXT node