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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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

How to get Call Browser to work? (vs2008)
I guess this isn't a question. The documentation states the Call Browser only works for C++.

MAKE IT WORK FOR ALL LANGUAGES!

Thank you.
How do I set the Local Port that my Net.WebClient() Uses ??
Hello there, i don't know at what level this comes up but i am using WebClient for the first time. I want to access a file located on a server online, its a text file. The whole system works perfectly but the only problem is that the connections. WebClient locally opens a random port on my system... more
Where Can I Get a Printed Copy of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Poster?
I've found the downloadable version of the above poster but I really don't want to print it out in 8.5 x 11 pages and then paste them all together.  Does anybody know where I can buy the actual poster, like the one that comes in the box with Visual Studio?A friend is one who sees through you and sti... more
How to use a Transparency key in Splash Screen
Dear All,I have designed a JPG file and want to use in splash screen in my vb.net project. I have set this image in form's background image property. In this JPG file, the blank space is filled with white background by default. But I dont need to show this white background in splash screen. Someone... more
Visual studio .NET Documentation - flow chart
I am doing documentation for an existing .Net project. When we run the application in debug mode it will go from function to funtion. Is there a tool (may be VS add-in) which can generate functional flow charts for this?Theoritically is seems to be quite possible. Pls give me your recommendations.... more

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