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Sunday, September 13, 2009 2:19 PM

Sandcastle with Code Contracts

Microsoft Dev Labs has released a new version of Code Contracts . (For more information about Code Contracts in the .NET Framework 4.0, see System.Diagnostics.Contracts and this article ). If you haven't yet, I highly recommend installing the latest Code
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:47 PM

Sandcastle Styles Project on CodePlex

The Sandcastle Styles project is now live on CodePlex. From the project's home page: The goal of this project is to improve Sandcastle by providing a rolled-up solution to various presentation style issues in a manner that is highly visible to the Sandcastle
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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, February 09, 2008 10:32 AM

DocProject 1.10.0 Release Candidate

The DocProject 1.10.0 Release Candidate is now available for download on CodePlex. It contains lots of bug fixes and some new features that I hope you'll like. You can read my preview post for information on a few of the more important features that have
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:58 AM

DocProject Roadmap

As you may have already heard, Sandcastle [1] was officially released to the web (RTW) through CodePlex on January 15, 2008. The license that was chosen is the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) [2] , but keep an eye on it because it may change [3] . There
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Friday, November 09, 2007 4:29 PM

DocProject Tips and Tricks I

As you probably already know, DocProject is kind of weak in the documentation department (that is, in its own API documentation :) I plan to address this issue for the first RTW, after I include first-class support for generating conceptual content and
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:58 PM

DocProject 1.9.0 RC Deployed

The DocProject 1.9.0 Release Candidate is now available on CodePlex. I'm still working on updating the wiki documentation though. Thanks for your patience with this one. I invested more time than I probably should have in additional features that weren't
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 9:32 AM

C# Multi-line XML Documentation Comments

I was just checking out the documentation on MSDN about XML comments and I discovered that C# supports multi-line comments for XML documentation as well: /** * <summary>Hello World!</summary> */ public void HelloWorld() { } Interesting, but
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Monday, October 08, 2007 4:09 AM

The Help! Project on CodePlex

I've just published the Help! project on CodePlex, which is intended to provide a fully managed compiled help system to replace Help 1.x (.chm).  Please contribute to this project by using the discussions area to post comments and ideas or join the
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Monday, August 13, 2007 11:39 PM

DocSites Online Part II

More public DocSites online...
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Monday, August 13, 2007 12:53 PM

DocProject 1.7.0 RC and 2008 Beta

Deployed!
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Sunday, July 29, 2007 5:45 PM

DocProject for Sandcastle 1.7.0 RC Preview

Preview some new features in DocProject for Sandcastle 1.7.0 Release Candidate.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:24 AM

Adding Additional Topics Using DocProject

Update 2/10/08: DocProject 1.10.0 RC provides first-class support for Sandcastle's conceptual build process, which compiles additional content written in the XML-based Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (MAML) to produce MSDN-like help topics, optionally
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Friday, July 06, 2007 2:54 AM

DocSites Online

Are you interested in seeing the DocSite templates in action, live on the web? I found a couple...
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