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Description
Description
It would be great if we had a command to fetch the descriptions of given error or warning messages such that when a user only provides the code, a description can still easily be retrieved.
Problems
As far as I can tell, there is absolutely no rhyme or reason to the API for these codes. It is possible to fetch their description from the Roslyn source code however (https://github.com/thomaslevesque/GenerateCSharpErrors/blob/master/CSharpErrorsAndWarnings.md), so perhaps a file could be kept, which frequently syncs with the Roslyn source code to generate human-readable messages to retrieve.
Here are some resources on Microsoft Learn pages which feature most of the relevant codes: