Sandcastle

I am happy to announce that we have posted an updated version of Sandcastle to Codeplex . I know this was a very long wait for everyone. This release brings Sandcastle to parity with the code that was used to generate the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET...

We released the source code for Sandcastle a year ago ( http://sandcastle.codeplex.com/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx ) supporting Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 documentation. After this release we were extremely busy in releasing the new Help...

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 ....

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...

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...

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...

Please see my post at http://blogs.msdn.com/innovation/archive/2009/03/26/launching-low-bandwidth-loband-beta-for-long-haul.aspx . Anand..

I was very pleased to be a part of 2009 Global MVP summit this year. We hosted three help industry MVPs last week. Eight Help sessions over two days by various speakers were well received. We received great feedback during these sessions. Rob Chandler...

Per my earlier blog , I posted the source code for Sandcastle at http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx . This will enable you to browse the source code or access it using the methods described here . The source...

Thank you for using Sandcastle and providing with valuable feedback. It is always good to get emails from this community about Sandcastle. Today Microsoft MVP Michael Cummings , principal consultant @ http://www.magenic.com/ , contacted me about a thread...

We are proud to announce that the Beta release of the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 ! The Windows SDK provides documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools designed to help you develop Windows applications...

I am very pleased to see this announcement about YUI Doc: A New Tool for Generating JavaScript API Documentation . The source code is available at http://github.com/yui . Let me know your feedback on YUI Doc and some of the features we can add to Sandcastle...

I am very pleased to announce that we have added Russian to the list of localized Visual Studio releases.This is a particularly exciting release as it illustrates what a great partnership Microsoft has built up with the local developer community and academia...

I am very pleased to announce the availability of the Sandcastle project with source code at http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle . The source code can be downloaded from the Releases tab at http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx...

API filters in Sandcastle is a very useful feature and allows namespaces, types, and members to be removed or shown in the reflection XML file, and ultimately in the compiled docs. They can be set up so that only certain topics are dropped, or so that...

I got several emails, after my previous post at http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2008/06/06/sandcastle-project-removed-from-codeplex.aspx , asking for an alternative download location of Sandcastle V 2.4.10520 until we close in on our decision...

We have removed Sandcastle project from Codeplex after carefully evaluating the feedback from this thread http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=29085 (currently unavailable) . There are few options such as the following: ...

I blogged here http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2008/01/22/introducing-namespace-diagnostics-and-viewer-for-hxs.aspx about Namespace#, the Diagnostics and Viewer for HxS written by Paul O'Rear, ex-Microsoft Help MVP, is my colleague at Microsoft...

I talked about various community projects supporting Sandcastle in this blog http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2007/06/21/sandcastle-customer-projects.aspx . I am very pleased to announce the release of Sandcastle Styles to this community project...

I am excited to announce the availability of Sandcastle Version 2.4.10520. The latest version is now available for download at http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle . My sincere thanks to the Sandcastle user community for providing us with valuable feedback...

I am working on releasing the next version of Sandcastle in CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle by the end of this month. This relase should resolve many bugs reported by Sandcastle customers at http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle/WorkItem/List...

Package This is a GUI tool written in C# for creating help files (.chm and .hxs with full text search and keyword search) from the content obtained from the MSDN/TechNet library via the MSDN Content Service . Package This allows you to generate personalized...

Paul O'Rear, ex-Microsoft Help MVP, is my colleague at Microsoft. He recently finished coding his pet project Namespace# and we are in the process of testing this tool. We will be releasing Namespace# soon for you to download ! You can read about Paul...

In this blog on generating builds using Powershell , I provided details on generating a single command wrapper to build CHM and HxS files regardless of where the source assemblies and comments are located. This powershell script provided the following...

I am excited to announce the availability of Sandcastle Version 2.4.10115. The latest version is now available for download at http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle . My sincere thanks to the Sandcastle user community for providing us with valuable feedback...