Announcing Sandcastle

We will be releasing the CTP version of Sandcastle shortly. There are couple places (download at our download center and also as a part of VS SDK) we are targeting to release our CTP version. Also as soon as the CTP is posted I will provide the information here so that you can download and use Sandcastle. In addition we plan to include Sandcastle in our August CTP release of VS SDK.

Mission Statement:

Enable managed class library developers throughout the world to easily create accurate, informative documentation with a common look and feel

Sandcastle Overview:

• Produces quality, comprehensive, familiar MSDN-like documentation.
• Works with or without authored comments.
• Supports Generics and .NET Framework 2.0
• Sandcastle has 2 main components (MrefBuilder and Build Assembler)
• MrefBuilder generates reflection xml file for Build Assembler
• Build Assembler includes syntax generation, transformation..etc
• Sandcastle is used internally to build .Net Framework documentation

Anand

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 27, 2006
  Any chance this will be released BEFORE the next VS SDK?  Sorry, but you've got us all pretty antsy for this.

• Anonymous
  July 27, 2006
  You mean the August VS SDK? Certainly yes and I will provide additional info. about the release shortly.
  
  Anand..

• Anonymous
  July 27, 2006
  PingBack from http://www.rosscode.com/blog/index.php?title=sandcastle_ndoc_s_replacement&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

• Anonymous
  July 27, 2006
  I'm still waiting for the CTP of Sandcastle to be released. I've been expecting it for some weeks...

• Anonymous
  July 27, 2006
  Three completely unrelated items that are worth your attention...
  First, if you want to see an extremely...

• Anonymous
  July 27, 2006
  Looking forward to the release. Building code comment pages is a feature I really missed from VS2003 ... what's the history behind it being missing in VS2005?

• Anonymous
  July 27, 2006
  Can you define shortly?
  

• Anonymous
  July 27, 2006
  Alors qu'on parle de plus en plus de Sandcastle, un blog MSDN lui étant dédié vient d'être ouvert : Sandcastle...

• Anonymous
  July 28, 2006
  You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com

• Anonymous
  August 03, 2006
  Visual Studio 2005 Sandcastle Add-In
  
  For the ones having troubles with the scripts, here a super easy add-in, with source code.
  
  Having troubles getting it started?, let me know!
  
  Video:
  http://www.overnight.nl/download/sandcastleaddin.html
  
  Post with rest of the links:
  http://dotnetpret.blogspot.com/2006/08/sandcastle-continued-documentation.html
  
  Cheers,
  
  Frank Kroondijk
  fh_kro<NO-SPAM>ondijk@yahoo.com

• Anonymous
  August 08, 2006
  开源NDoc的作者宣布终止NDoc开发，详见http://haacked.com/archive/2006/07/26/TheDemiseOfNDocAndAChallengeForUsersOfOp...

• Anonymous
  November 11, 2006
  Alors qu'on parle de plus en plus de Sandcastle, un blog MSDN lui étant dédié vient d'être ouvert : Sandcastle

• Anonymous
  October 28, 2008
  The comment has been removed