Sandcastle
Documentation compilers for managed class libraries
Componentization - Building Assembly level HxS using Sandcastle
The primary goal of componentization is to reduce the size of a run-time image. In addition to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/25/2007
Build us a Sandcastle - Interview with .NET Rocks
David Wright (Architect and developer of Sandcastle documentation compiler) from my team and I will...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/22/2007
Sandcastle and MTPS Conntent Service
Sandcastle uses MSDN and Technet Publishing System (MTPS) content service to resolve refeence links...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/20/2007
Tagging Feature in MSDN
MSDN team released the tagging feature last week. For additional details please see...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/20/2007
Tagging feature to be launched in MSDN Library
MSDN team is planning to add tagging feature on the MSDN Library this week. The tags control will...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/09/2007
ScriptDoc 1.0 for extractiong Javascript code comments is now available at Codeplex
In April I blogged about Bertrand Leroy's, cool document extraction tool (ScriprDoc 1.0) that will...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/28/2007
Launching Sandcastle page at MSDN
Last year when we launched Sandcastle we had request from the community about providing a website...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/27/2007
June 2007 CTP Refresh with "renamed" documentation design and model
We have provided a refresh for June CTP at...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/27/2007
Sandcastle Customer Projects
We released June CTP version of Sandcastle earlier this week and got some great feedback (and bugs)...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/20/2007
Sandcastle June Refresh with "renamed" documentation design and model
We released June CTP version of Sandcastle earlier this week and got some great feedback (and bugs)...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/20/2007
Announcing June 2007 Sandcastle CTP
I am excited to announce the availability of June 2007 CTP version for Sandcastle. The latest...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/19/2007
Introducing a new document model design code named "Hana"
With Sandcastle June CTP we are releasing a new documentation design code named “Hana”. We expect...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/17/2007
The "Prototype" document model design overview
When we released Sandcastle last July we released it with the “Prototype” document model design. The...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/17/2007
.NET document design and MSDN documentation
Today I stumbled across this article MSDN Documentation - the worse in class ?. Much of the class...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/15/2007
MSDN has a new look!
Earlier this week MSDN launched the redesigned pages under code name Tobago. Internally I had the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/25/2007
Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 Beta Quickstarts
Today, at the Microsoft MIX conference, Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 Beta site was launched....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/30/2007
Documenting Javascript doc comments
Bertrand Leroy, a Software development Engineer, from AJAX team is currently representing Microsoft...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/24/2007
VS Codename Orcas Beta - Shipped through Sandcastle
I am extremely pleased to announce that we shipped online documentation for Visual Studio Codename...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/19/2007
BuildAssembler Configuration
In my previous blogs I have discussed the architecture of BuildAssembler, a configurable build...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/16/2007
MSDN Wiki Projects - Channel 9 conversation with Fabrice Fonck and Molly Bostic
I blogged about MSDN Wiki earlier at...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/11/2007
Video of Sandcastle session from MVP Global summit
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/22/2007
Announcing March 2007 Sandcastle CTP Technical Refresh
I am excited to announce the availability of a Technical Refresh version of March CTP at...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/16/2007
WinHelp for Windows Vista!
The WinHlp32.exe installer was posted on the download center yesterday at 4:29 PM. With this...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/08/2007
MVP Global Summit in Seattle
I am very excited to be a part of this year's MVP Global summit. Please come and give us your...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/08/2007
Announcing March 2007 Sandcastle CTP
I am excited to announce the availability of March 2007 CTP version for Sandcastle. The latest...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/06/2007
Documenting PostSharp using Sandcastle
Recently Gael Fraiteur wrote to me about how he used Sandcastle December CTP to document PostSharp....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/04/2007
Sandcastle December CTP shipped with VS SDK 4.0 RTM release
VS SDK 4.0 RTM has been released! This is the last SDK release for Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/01/2007
Sandcastle Performance improvements in February CTP
David Smith made some great observations regarding Sandcastle perf. issues on large assemblies at...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/28/2007
February Sandcastle CTP
I got several emails about the next release of Sandcastle. I plan on releasing a CTP version by the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/19/2007
Announcing December 2006 Sandcastle CTP
The December 2006 CTP version for Sandcastle is now available for download at...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/09/2006
Announcing RC0 of MSDN Wiki
I blogged about MSDN Wiki earlier at...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/08/2006
A (Microsoft) code name a day: Sandcastle
I was thrilled to see Mary Jo Foley, from ZDNet, blog about Sandcastle at her “Microsoft Codenames”...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/06/2006
Sandcastle article on Russian Software Developer Network (RSDN)
Nikita Zeemin is a Sandcastle user from Russia. He published an article on Sandacstle (in Russian)...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/01/2006
Supporting Custom tags in Sandcastle
Sandcastle supports C# (and VB) xml tags for developer documentation comments. The list of c# tags...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/21/2006
Generating friendly HTM file names from Sandcastle
Sandcastle generates GUID file names for HTM. With the release of November CTP you can generated...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/11/2006
Announcing November 2006 Sandcastle CTP
The November 2006 CTP version for Sandcastle is now available for download at...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/10/2006
Introducing the Power Toys for Visual Studio Pack Installer
Power Toys for Visual Studio are small tools that provide aid to developer pain-points or assist in...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/10/2006
Sandcastle September CTP is now available as a part of Visual Studio 2005 SDK 4.0 (November CTP)
Microsoft is pleased to announce that the November 2006 CTP of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK 4.0 is now...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/04/2006
Integrating Sandcastle doc generation to your NAnt builds
NAnt is an open source software tool for automating software build processes. It is based on Apache...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/27/2006
Documentation for ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 site (https://ajax.asp.net/docs/) using Sandcastle code base
ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 now available @ https://ajax.asp.net is the culmination of a 1 year cycle since...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/21/2006
Announcing September Sandcastle CTP Technical Refresh
The September CTP technical refresh version for Sandcastle is now available for download at...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/07/2006
What's new in September 2006 Sandcastle CTP
September 2006 Sandcastle CTP is now available at Microsoft download center. Here is a summary of...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/30/2006
Generating xml using Sandcastle
Currently we generate HTMs as the output from Sandcastle. Several users have asked me about...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/21/2006
Developer Content Wiki - MSDN Wiki
Other than Sandcastle my team owns the release of MSDN Wiki beta and it's feature enhancements....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/06/2006
Resolving reference links in Sandcastle using none, local, index and msdn link type options
Sandcastle supports 4 different link type options. The link type options are defined in...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/28/2006
What's new in August 2006 Sandcastle CTP
August 2006 Sandcastle CTP is currently available at...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/27/2006
Launching sandcastledocs.com wiki site
Molly Bostic, program manager, MSDN Wiki and a member of my team helped me last night to setup...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/25/2006
Sandcastle for Documentation Build
Installation and Layout Sandcastle CTP can be downloaded from...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/21/2006
Syntax Generation
Syntax in Sandcastle documentation is generated by SyntaxBuilder. SyntaxBuilder uses the Common...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/15/2006
BuildAssembler (EXE)
I my previous blogs I discussed MrefBuilder and Sandcastle.config in detail. Sandcastle process uses...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/14/2006