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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 ...

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 ...

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 community and also involves community feedback. This project was started by Paul ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 provides a console mode and a project-based graphical user interface (GUI) for adding ...

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, ...