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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:52 AM

MAML Editor: Progress II

In a previous blog post I discussed my work on a WYSIWYG editor for authoring MAML topics, either inside or outside of DocProject . This post is simply another quick update on my progress. Preview Release Timeline A few weeks ago I started a new job and
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:11 AM

DocProject 2008: Custom Visual Studio Project System

For the last couple of weeks I've been testing a new VS package for DocProject 2008. You can read more about my plans here . More recently I've been working on a new project system that integrates into Visual Studio 2008 but the current implementation
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Monday, June 16, 2008 12:25 AM

DocProject 1.11.0 RC - Second Update

Another update was just released for DocProject 1.11.0 RC . This update replaces the existing installer on the Releases page that was deployed for the first update . For anyone that had previously downloaded DocProject 1.11.0 RC or the first update, you
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Friday, June 13, 2008 8:57 PM

DocProject 1.11.0 RC Updated

An update was just released for DocProject 1.11.0 RC . It replaces the existing installer on the Releases page. For anyone that had previously downloaded DocProject 1.11.0 RC you can download it again if you've experienced any of the following bugs. Note:
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Sunday, June 08, 2008 11:02 PM

DocProject 1.11.0 RC Is Now Available

DocProject 1.11.0 Release Candidate is now available on CodePlex. It supports the Sandcastle May 2008 Release and contains many bug fixes and new features, most of which are listed below. Full support for both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008
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Friday, June 06, 2008 11:13 AM

Visual Studio Gallery Updated

It appears that Microsoft has improved the Visual Studio Gallery by adding the ability for users to rate and review products. The interface was jazzed up a bit as well. Nice work MS - the original gallery was more like a project dump but the new release
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:35 AM

MAML Editor: Progress

This blog post is just an update on my progress creating a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) MAML editor . I've received a lot of feedback (relative) for the MAML editor and I know that people are waiting for one, so I'd like to share with you some
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Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:53 AM

MAML Migration: The Next Step in the Evolution of Help Authoring

Are you part of that herd of developers that is used to documenting applications by writing help topics in raw HTML? The power of it is nice, being able to add a pinch of bold here, a splash of italics there, some CSS for different layouts, a floating
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Saturday, May 03, 2008 2:36 PM

DocProject Roadmap Part II

In my first DocProject Roadmap post I described my preliminary plans for DocProject 1.x and later versions. In this post I'm going to discuss the project's current status and some updates to my plans for future versions. 1.11.0 RC DocProject 1.11.0 RC
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Friday, April 25, 2008 9:12 AM

Sandcastle: Auto-Generated Bibliography

June 11, 2008 Update: This feature is now available as part of the Sandcastle Styles patch and DocProject 1.11.0 RC . Wouldn't it be cool if you could cite books and web sites while authoring MAML and XML documentation comments and have Sandcastle create
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 12:51 AM

DocToMaml 1.0 Beta is Now Available

DocToMaml 1.0 Beta is a tool that converts HTML and XHTML help files to Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (MAML) in a batch process. MAML help files are used by DocProject and Sandcastle to build user documentation in various presentation styles. DocToMaml
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Monday, April 07, 2008 11:15 AM

Article Features DocProject in Microsoft's Dutch .NET Magazine

Jan Schreuder wrote an article on Sandcastle for Microsoft's Dutch .NET Magazine and it's now available on the web . In it he provides an overview of Sandcastle and some instructions on how to use it. The article also features a few popular community
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:28 PM

DocProject in the Visual Studio Gallery

Microsoft's Visual Studio Gallery was announced to the public today. It provides a one-stop-shop for Visual Studio add-ins, packages, item and project templates, macros, controls, coffee makers, toasters, etc. I think it's a great idea. Google can only
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:30 AM

DocProject 1.10.1 Release Candidate Is Now Available

The DocProject 1.10.1 Release Candidate is now available for download on CodePlex. This release contains some important bug fixes for 1.10.0 RC. One of which, it was reported, prevented the DocProject Add-In from working at all on some installations of
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:01 AM

ResolveExternalLinksComponent

ResolveExternalLinksComponent is a Sandcastle build component that I wrote to solve a general usability problem that was reported here , by Karl, and to dog food my Hosted Sandcastle Build Component Template . The component's current behavior was designed
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