Sandcastle

Here are the steps to create a Chm build using Sandcastle. Please see the atatchment for the steps in text format. Prerequisites: 1. .Net Framework 2.0 2. For Chm generation download HTML Help Workshop - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default...

I’m super excited about the response to the Sandcastle CTP launch. Much of the response has been positive, and folks have asked some great questions. Let me try to address a few of the common questions people have about the site: Where can post 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...

Sandcastle CTP can now be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E82EA71D-DA89-42EE-A715-696E3A4873B2&displaylang=en Instructions: 1. Visit the above link to download and install Sandcastle. 2. After installing...

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...

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: ...

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 ....

Attached power point slides provide a high level overview of Sandcastle. I will be posting more design details after we ship the CTP version Anand..

Sandcastle supports C# (and VB) xml tags for developer documentation comments. The list of c# tags are available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5ast78ax.aspx . We added the following new custom nDoc tags in November CTP ( http://www.microsoft...

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...

NAnt is an open source software tool for automating software build processes. It is based on Apache Ant and targeted at the .NET environment whereas Ant is a more generic cross-platform tool principally used by Java programmers . Brett Burch from...

I my previous blog I discussed Sandcastle.config in detail. Sandcastle process uses three executables: MRefBuilder: Reflects over managed assemblies to produce an XML-formatted reflection information file. BuildAssembler: Collates information...

The December 2006 CTP version for Sandcastle is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E82EA71D-DA89-42EE-A715-696E3A4873B2&displaylang=en . Our sincere thanks to the Sandcastle user community and to...

Please see my blog about Sandcastle September 2007 release . With this release, we plan on shipping a new tool called CHMBuilder for CHM generation using Sandcastle. What is CHMBuilder? CHMBuilder is an executable that will be shipped under the...

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...

We will be releasing the CTP version of Sandcastle shortly. There are couple places (download at our download center and also as a part of VS SDK) we are targeting to release our CTP version. Also as soon as the CTP is posted I will provide the information...

August 2006 Sandcastle CTP is currently available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e82ea71d-da89-42ee-a715-696e3a4873b2&DisplayLang=en . Here is a summary of what's new in this CTP version: Firefox support for Sandcasltle...

I am excited to announce the availability of March 2007 CTP version for Sandcastle. The latest version is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e82ea71d-da89-42ee-a715-696e3a4873b2&displaylang=en ....

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 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...

Overview Sandcastle builds documentation for any managed class libraries. Sandcastle requires the following inputs: A set of managed assemblies (.dlls or .exes) to document The set of assemblies on which the operation of those assemblies depend...

This post provides steps to create CHM using Sandcastle. Some of the users have automated these steps. Mikael Söderström has a "Sandcastle Helper" here , Ashley van Gerven has a batch script available here and Scott Hanselman's has power shell script...

Please see my blog about Sandcastle Spetember 2007 release. With this release, we plan on shipping an example Windows powershell script to document APIs using Sandcastle. Why Windows Powershell I saw what Scot Hanselman did for Sandcastle with...

In this thread ( http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2139818&SiteID=1 ) we discussed about the localization issues in CHM. With September Sandcastle release we have addressed the Unicode issues for CHMs built in East Asian languages...

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...