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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 ...

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 are still a few unanswered questions that I have [3] about how Microsoft's work on ...

In this post I'm going to provide details and screen shots of some of the new features in the DocProject 1.10.0 Release Candidate, which includes several bug fixes and new features such as first-class support for conceptual topics (additional content written in MAML markup), some new tool windows for Visual Studio Standard+, and increased ...

It's about that time again… Just FYI, DocProject 1.6.2 RC had more downloads in the last month than any other version to date. Thanks to everyone who tried it and provided valuable feedback! And BTW, I wrote a new article called How to Diagnose and Resolve Issues that provides guidance for gathering diagnostic information if you're having ...

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 ...

In this blog post you'll see and read about some of the new features of DocProject that will be released with the 1.6.0 Release Candidate. But first, I'd just like to say thanks to everyone who downloaded DocProject and provided feedback. I appreciate it. Please keep the comments and feedback coming! If you're only interested in screen ...

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 just published 2 open source deployments in one month, one of which is a brand new project: Auto-Input Protection (AIP). Both deployments are available on CodePlex. DocProject 1.4.0 Release Candidate Is Now Available DocProject drives the Sandcastle help generation tools using the power of Visual Studio 2005. Choose from various project ...

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 ...