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Build me a Sandcastle

After my post on documentation tools and the news that MS had a NDoc style tool up it's sleeve comes word of that tool.

Sandcastle Overview:

  • Produces quality, comprehensive, familiar MSDN-like documentation.
  • 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 

MS plan to "..include Sandcastle in our August CTP release of VS SDK."

I hope they include a MSBuild task.

Comments

Anand Raman said:

Andrew,

For this CTP release we will not include any MS Build task. We are look at this as feature for future release. Please feel free to email me directly (aramATmicrosoftDOTcom)if you have additional questions or feature requests.

Anand..

# July 20, 2006 10:42 AM

Brenton House said:

You can follow the posts in this thread, but I know a *lot* of people are anxiously awaiting the release

# July 21, 2006 8:24 AM

Brenton House said:

I will build one as soon as I can get my hands on a copy of it.

# July 21, 2006 8:26 AM
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