Sandcastle Release

re: Sandcastle Release

Paul Selormey — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:23:37 GMT

We are really waiting for a new release and updates, but no one currently developing

applications for the VS.NET 2010 or .NET 4.0, such features are not what we are really

expecting at this time - speaking for myself :)

Our wishes are fixing and improving the current offering, with a more improved documentations,

while the VS.NET 2010 and Help 3.0 support remains in beta.

In particular, I have observed

1. the support for the Hana style is dropped, but the support for Prototype is maintained :(

2. the announced support for XSD or XML schema documentation is only experimental, handled by the Prototype

3. still no extended support of the web help to the conceptual topics.

I am sorry, but I was looking forward to a more improved product, but this is not it.

Yes, this release will finally help me to understand how to use the IntellisenseComponent2 and

TaskGrabberComponent components, which I have being trying to get working.

There is also information on how to produce the conceptual reference documents, which is also long

overdue. These are very useful information, and a great help for my current work on Sandcastle.

But, having waited for a whole year, if the current source codes is what is coming in the release,

then it is not really exciting all. At least we should have a complete XSD documentation, that is supported in

VS 2005 presentation in this release. If not in this release, then when?

I love you Anand, and the great work you are doing, but this release is not it!

It can remain in source repository, until the various parts are in place.

Please come again, and better. And today is my birthday, I wished for a better present :)

Best regards,

Paul.

re: Sandcastle Release

daveblack — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:29:06 GMT

Hi Anand,

Is there any update on the MSI you were putting together?

Thanks.

Dave Black

re: Sandcastle Release

sili18 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:00:16 GMT

Hi,

Is there any update on the MSI...

Thanks

Siva

re: Sandcastle Release

kenc — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:42:09 GMT

I'm also waiting for the .msi. Is it available yet? The 2007 CTP didn't come with any documentation. Will the .msi have docs with it?

re: Sandcastle Release

SDolha — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:40:41 GMT

We are waiting for the release (MSI); 3 weeks have already passed from your original announcement, so we hope you didn't forget about it.

We will soon need ability to develop documentation for .NET 4.0 assemblies (as we plan to release a component library for .NET 4.0 soon after the .NET 4.0 release).

re: Sandcastle Release

t_sch — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:13:23 GMT

Can you give any hints to infos regarding localization of sandcastle generated documents?

Thanks,

Thomas