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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''? ...

The Sandcastle Build Component Templates 1.1 release provides two C# Item Templates that you can use to easily create custom Sandcastle Build Components in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. In this blog post I intend to provide some details about the templates, with more focus on hosted components and DocProject's API.  Instructions ...

DocProject 1.6.2 was released and is now available for download on CodePlex. I want to thank all of DocProject's users that took the time to report bugs and provide diagnostic information to me. You've been helpful. Recently, Anand blogged about DocProject and some of the other community projects that can automate Sandcastle to generate help ...

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 in combination with auto-generated reference topics.  19 conceptual templates are ...

In this blog entry I'm going to show a preview of one of the new features that I've included in DocProject for the next release. I'll also write a little about my open-source development habits, how I test DocProject and my plans for DocProject in the future. But before I begin I'd like to thank everyone that has downloaded DocProject and ...

I've made some more modifications to the DocProject software. Several classes have been refactored again and some new classes have been added. A few work items have been addressed and now there is support for Visual Basic.NET and ASP.NET Web Application projects (DocSites). You can also cancel the build in the middle of a step. Download the ...

Version 1.1.0 of DocProject, a release candidate, is now available at CodePlex. Download the DocProject installer, which also installs the complete source code, Visual Studio solution file and project files, here. Updates The latest build includes dramatic changes to the class foundation, refactored to address some of the previous work items. ...

Addendum [1/4/07]: DocProject on CodePlex DocProject is now available on CodePlex. From the home page you can access the How To... wiki, which provides updated guidance and information that was written after this blog entry. Also, I recommend that you download the installer from the codeplex website, here, instead of from my Downloads page ...