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  • 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 is community-oriented, which I think people will appreciate. DocProject has been ...
    Posted to Dave Sexton's Blog (Weblog) by dave on June 6, 2008
  • 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 image, several nested tables, an abundance of hyperlinks, embedded Flash and media players, ...
    Posted to Dave Sexton's Blog (Weblog) by dave on May 24, 2008
  • 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 tools that are available for use with Sandcastle; namely, Sandcastle Help File Builder, ...
    Posted to Dave Sexton's Blog (Weblog) by dave on April 7, 2008
  • 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 help so much here (have you tried searching for ''visual studio add-ins''? ...
    Posted to Dave Sexton's Blog (Weblog) by dave on February 27, 2008
  • The Thick and Thin of a Paradigm Shift

    If I had a time machine :-p, the first thing I'd do would be to go check out the Dinosaurs, alive and in all their spectacular glory. Then, certainly, I'd jump right into the future to see where we are heading with our development tools, platforms and standards :) A change has already begun. Actually, change is continual in technology; however, ...
    Posted to Dave Sexton's Blog (Weblog) by dave on December 4, 2006
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