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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 they put me on a project with a tight deadline so I haven't had much time to do anything ...

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 only provides a single template, .docproj, which has very limited functionality at the ...

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 can download it again if you're experiencing the problem that was fixed by this ...

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: Make sure to manually uninstall an existing version of DocProject before installing ...

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 using a single installer. Conceptual topics created in Topic Exporer are now saved with ...

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 is community-oriented, which I think people will appreciate. DocProject has been ...

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 information about the one that I'm working on and when it will be available. For those of ...

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 image, several nested tables, an abundance of hyperlinks, embedded Flash and media players, ...

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 will be deployed within a week after the upcoming Sandcastle release.  It contains ...

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 a per-topic bibliography automatically? Someone posted that question in the Sandcastle forums ...