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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the upcoming DocProject 1.8.0 release candidate I've made some changes and added several substantial features to the DocSite templates that I'd like to share with you in this blog post. Changes to the DocSite templates include: ASP.NET Theme presentation: Ships with one default theme named, ''BasicBlue'', which has the same ...

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 I'm going to describe how you can use a Setup and Deployment project in Visual Studio 2005, along with a few other tools, to create a single, self-extracting executable to install your managed software and prerequisites. I'm also going to provide a solution to one of the problems that I encountered when I recently attempted ...

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 ...