Announcing Sandcastle
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 here so that you can download and use Sandcastle. In addition we plan to include Sandcastle in our August CTP release of VS SDK.
Mission Statement:
Enable managed class library developers throughout the world to easily create accurate, informative documentation with a common look and feel
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
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