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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 ...

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, ...

The DocProject 1.10.0 Release Candidate is now available for download on CodePlex. It contains lots of bug fixes and some new features that I hope you'll like.  You can read my preview post for information on a few of the more important features that have been added, and a comprehensive list of all of DocProject's features is available ...

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 ...

As you probably already know, DocProject is kind of weak in the documentation department (that is, in its own API documentation :)  I plan to address this issue for the first RTW, after I include first-class support for generating conceptual content and after Sandcastle's first RTW.  If you are new to DocProject, the articles on CodePlex ...

The DocProject 1.9.0 Release Candidate is now available on CodePlex.  I'm still working on updating the wiki documentation though. Thanks for your patience with this one.  I invested more time than I probably should have in additional features that weren't immediately necessary, but hey, this project is fun for me and some times I can't ...

I was just checking out the documentation on MSDN about XML comments and I discovered that C# supports multi-line comments for XML documentation as well: /**  * <summary>Hello World!</summary>  */ public void HelloWorld() { } Interesting, but I wouldn't recommend using multi-line comments for a few reasons: They do not ...

I've just published the Help! project on CodePlex, which is intended to provide a fully managed compiled help system to replace Help 1.x (.chm).  Please contribute to this project by using the discussions area to post comments and ideas or join the development team.  If you want to join the team then please see the Welcome! thread for ...

A couple more public DocSites have come to my attention and I thought I'd share them with my readership. You can read my original DocSites Online post here. If you haven't been paying attention and you're not sure what a DocSite is, it's an AJAX-enabled ASP.NET Web Application project in Visual Studio 2005/2008 that provides a web interface for ...