Sandcastle - Documentation Compilers for Manage...

Sandcastle - Documentation Compilers for Managed Class Library

Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. Sandcastle has the following key features:

  • Works with or without authored comments
  • Supports Generics and .NET Framework 2.0
  • Sandcastle has 2 main components (MrefBuilder and Build Assembler)
  • MrefBuilder generates reflection xml file for Build Assembler
  • Build Assembler includes syntax generation, transformation, etc
  • Sandcastle is used internally to build .Net Framework documentation

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Download the Sandcastle June 2007 CTP
Enabling managed class library developers throughout the world to easily create accurate, informative documentation with a common look and feel.

Latest from the Sandcastle Team

Sandcastle Release
Per my previous blog post http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2009/01/15/sandcastle-update.aspx, I have released the source code for the latest version of Sandcastle at http://sandcastle.codeplex.com/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx. This release was used to ship Visual Studio 2010 Be... more
Announcing the release of Common Compiler Infrastructure (CCI) - Metadata
I am very pleased to announce the availability of  CCI. Herman Venter from Microsoft Research released CCI at http://ccimetadata.codeplex.com/ . CCI is a set of components (libraries) that provide some of the functionality that compilers and related programming tools tend to have in commo... more
Announcing the release of Meta Numerics project at Codeplex
I am very pleased to announce the availability of  Meta Numerics project. My colleague and Sandcastle architect David Wright released Meta Numerics at http://metanumerics.codeplex.com/. The Meta.Numerics library brings scientific computing to the .NET platform. It offers an object-oriented API... more
Seventeenth Annual WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance, March 29-April 1, Seattle, Washington
I am very pleased to be a part of the Seventeenth Annual WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance. At this conference I am presenting a session on Sandcastle and my colleague April will be presenting Help3. I have provided screen shots on Help3 below. The next release o... more
MSDN: Launching low bandwidth (loband) Library Beta for long haul!
  Please see my post at http://blogs.msdn.com/innovation/archive/2009/03/26/launching-low-bandwidth-loband-beta-for-long-haul.aspx.   Anand..... more

Latest from the Developer Documentation and Help System Forums

VS 2008 migration wizard - batch mode
Hi,I have 150+ applications written in .Net 1.1 and 200+ reports on SSRS2000. I currently use VS2003 as IDE for all these. Now there is a need to migrate all these to .Net 3.5 and SSRS2008 and use VS2008 as IDE. I would like to run VS 2008 migration wizard in batch mode to collect all the issues tha... more
Does win64 enhance the security of "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile"? thanks.
Hi: Does Win64 (2003 X64 SP2) enhance the security of "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile"? Where is the related document? Some commands (such as gunzip) that not from Microsoft cannot run under that folder, While the commands (such as copy) from Microsoft can work well. The test... more
Documenting a Solution
Hi,

I'm currently using Sandcastle to document projects in a VS2008 solution. is there a way to produce a CHM file which documents the entire solution?

Is there anyway for this to be done?

Many thanks for any ideas
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Cannot Locate APPLIEDDEVICEFILTER Property in Visual Studio 2008 Mobile Web application Controls
Hi,

I am not sure of this, but am not sure if Studio 2008 Mobile Controls have the  APPLIEDDEVICEFILTER property. I cannot located them for any of my Mobile Projects (Test), having a Brain Fart. Please assist ASAP.
MsFlexGrid
I used the MSflexdrig in VB6.0, but since I upgraded to Visual studio 2008 I can not find the MSflexgrid in the toolbox, even when I use the choose Items option ?

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