Generating Documentation for .NET assemblies using SandCastle
Posted by archworx on June 4, 2007
I was developing a Control Library for .NET 2.0 and wanted to generate neat looking documentation from XML tags that I had written in code. So I googled around for a bit until I found that you can use a tool called SandCastle to generate HTML documentation that could be transformed into CHM and HxS formats. Here are the steps you have to do:
1- Inside VS2005 right click your project in the Solution Explorer and choose ”Properties”.
2- Click “Build” tab, under “Ouput” make sure that you check the “XML documentation file” checkbox. Once you do so, you can fill in a textbox that specifies the path of where the XML file (that contains the tags you put in code) will be generated.
3- Download and Install HTML Help Workshop .
3- Download and Install SandCastle March 2007 CTP .
4- Download and Install SandCastle Help File Builder (A really cool project on CodePlex that provides a UI that utilizes Sandcastle to generate Help Files)
5- Use SandCastle Help file Builder to generate your documentation .
Voila, you’ve got a cool professional documentation for your .NET project
Posted in .NET 2.0, AFathalla, Documentation, VS 2005 | 3 Comments »
