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

VS 2010 RC Help
Just loaded RC on my slow win7 test machine. I started a C# project. Put cursor on any C# keyword and get accurate help showing in Chrome in under 500ms.  Other items like namespaces and types etc F1 Help in under 2 seconds. Very acceptable.  Nice job.  -- Small Problem Put the cursor on "In... more
Location of local help files - beta2 vs RC
The readme for VS2010RC states the location for local help files changed between beta2 and RC and that uninstalling the beta2 will not remove them. But then it fails to mention the old and new folder locations. I'd like to manually delete the local help content from beta2, can anyone tell me what I... more
Datagrid control does not update the html source after applying changes with the property builder
I'm using VS2008 SP1 and working on a project that was converted from 2003.  There are no errors, warnings, or messages.  Create columns automatically at run time is unchecked.  When I use the property builder to modify an existing datagrid and apply the changes I can see the changes take affect in... more
VS 2010 RC, MS Help Viewer 1.0 RC now available
VS 2010 RC release is now available via MSDN subscriber downloads, and publicly available around the 10th of Feb. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx So for those stuck on Beta 2 Help this is your chance to get something stable and release quality. Please, anything you find in the... more
Cannot connect to data base in Visual Basic 2008/Windows 7 using Windows XP/Visual Basic 6 Code
I used to be able to use an OleDB connection with the jet 4.0 provider to connect to Access Databases. An 'invalid operation error is thrown and also an error message 'Method may only be called on a Type for which Type.IsGenericParameter is true' is shown.  How do I fix this.

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