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) from forums, blogs and via email about this relase. The sandcastle blog (https://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2007/06/19/announcing-june-2007-sandcastle-ctp.aspx) provides details on this release.

In addition we rolled out the “VS Orcas” design to customers with this release. This "VSORCAS" presentation layer released as a part of Sandcastle will not be used for the Orcas Beta 2 or RTM documentation shipping in MSDN anytime soon as we have to make changes to the online infrastructure. We will continue to use VS 2005 presentation for our Orcas release with additional design improvements. However Richard in his blog mentioned that this new design name could cause some confusion for a customers. I see his point and would like to rename "VSORCAS".

I plan to release a refresh of Sandcastle later this week with a new name for VSORCAS and will provide an update here.

 Anand..

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 21, 2007
  Will there be a documentation style that looks identical to the VS 2008 documentation? Will there be any support for producing how-to and other non-reference topics that look like the corresponding topics in the VS 2008 documentation?

• Anonymous
  June 21, 2007
  Thanks for respoding so quickly on the naming issue (and for the linkback to the blog) :-)

• Anonymous
  June 21, 2007
  MKane, We are modifying VS2005 style and will use it for shipping Orcas (VS 2008). I will post a blog about the improvements we are making. Anand..

• Anonymous
  June 26, 2007
  We have provided a refresh for June CTP at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E82EA71D-DA89-42EE-A715-696E3A4873B2&displaylang=en

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  More public DocSites online...