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

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