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 Viewer for VS 2010 Beta2, CTP and RTM. In addition...

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 Beta...

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 common. The metadata...

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 for matrix...

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 of Sandcastle will support...

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 has posted few pictures from this summit here - http...

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 code posted is the same version published previously...

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 on the MVP newsgroups that rumors the Sandcastle...

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 using native (Win32®) and/or managed (.NET Framework...

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 will be posting an update about 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 in Russia. It is remarkable that this all...

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?ReleaseId=13873 and also from the Source code tab...

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 about the future release location of Sandcastle....

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 list. Dave Sexton of DocProject for Sandcastle...

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. What's new in this version: 1. Sandcastle...

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.aspx . Thanks for all the great feedback and for...

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 ebooks of MSDN or TechNet library content by...

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’s work at http://www.helpfulsolutions.com/ . What...

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 features: Allows the build options to be read...

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. What's new in this version: 1. Web Output...

I am working on releasing Sandcastle in CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle in the next week or so. This will allow us to do the following: Track Sandcastle feature request and issues at a single place Have Sandcastle specific forum for the community Release "Prototye" style for...

Recently I completed my 3 rd year as an employee at Microsoft. I completed by undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and did my graduate research in Computational Fluid mechanics. I spent few years as a consultant and moved to Seattle to work for Boeing and found my home at Microsoft Developer...

Other than shipping Sandcastle and help content for VS products my team has been involved with the release of MSDN Wiki. Tomorrow (December 7, 2007) marks the 1 year anniversary of the launch of MSDNWiki . We have approximately 4000 worldwide developers worldwide sharing their knowledge in 9 different...

The Visual Studio International Pack contains a set of class libraries designed for .NET developers to create world-ready applications. The Visual Studio International Pack 1.0 release provides the following seven components to enhance the globalization features provided by .NET Framework. l East...