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Announcing September 2007 Sandcastle Release

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I am excited to announce the availability of September 2007 version for Sandcastle. The latest version is now available for download at https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E82EA71D-DA89-42EE-A715-696E3A4873B2&displaylang=en. My sincere thanks to the Sandcastle user community for providing us with valuable feedback.

What's new in this version:

  1. CHMBuilder for CHM generation using Sandcastle. Please see https://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2007/09/13/building-chm-using-chmbuilder.aspx.
  2. New Hybrid design (Presentation changes to VS2005 transforms). Please see https://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2007/09/19/part-1-vs-2005-presentation-changes-in-sandcastle-september-release.aspx.
  3. Windows PowerShell script for documenting APIs using Sandcastle. Please see https://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2007/09/12/documenting-apis-with-sandcastle-using-windows-powershell.aspx.
  4. VersionBuilder tool to provide support for documenting multiple versions of a project. I will post a blog on this shortly.
  5. DBCSFix for CHM localization – Please see https://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2007/09/29/chm-localization-and-unicode-issues-dbcsfix-exe.aspx
  6. Reduced installer size: This version has a 1.5 MB installer. We accomplished this by not shipping Framework reflection data. Framework reflection data is now generated during the first run of the test project
  7. 5 Star MSDN style Feedback Control

Changes in this version:

  1. Data\Reflection is not installed by the msi. It’s now generated when a use runs the test project (using msproject or batch or powershell). This will take about 4 minutes to generate the files.
  2. CHM will be generated in a CMH folder instead of the Output folder.

Getting Started:

1. Using the command line option for the batch file under Examples/Sandcastle folder to build VS2005 or hana or prototype style CHM or HxS file

1. Build_sandcatle.bat vs2005 test

2. Build_sandcatle.bat prototype test

3. Build_sandcatle.bat hana test

If you need to generate hxs, please uncomment the following line in build_sandcastle.bat. Make sure "Microsoft Help 2.0 SDK" is installed on your machine.

::hxcomp.exe -p output\test.hxc

2. Using msbuild to generate build for VS2005 or hana or prototype, CHM or HxS file

1.    Msbuild build.proj /property:PresentationStyle=vs2005

2.    Msbuild build.proj /property:PresentationStyle=hana

3.    Msbuild build.proj /property:PresentationStyle=prototype

To build hxs, add /target:Hxs, eg: Msbuild build.proj /property:PresentationStyle=vs2005 /target:Hxs

Issues fixed in this version (Reported by Customers):

1. Sandcastle: Add other supported languages to configs

2. Sandcastle: ApiFilter doesn't work as expected

3. Sandcastle: Build intellisense documentation without internal members

4. Sandcastle: BuildAssembler is throwing System.FormatException

5. Sandcastle: Can SandCastle find automatically GAC assemblies

6. Sandcastle: Chinese characters incorrectly display in TOC

7. Sandcastle: duplicate keys in shared_content.xml and reference.content.xml

8. Sandcastle: Example code sections in VS2005 template is having incorrect background-color and font

9. Sandcastle: Format of Delaration Syntax section need to improve.(prototype)

10. Sandcastle: Incorporate Dbcsfix in sandcastle

11. Sandcastle: Incorrect behavior for Complier Generated Class

12. Sandcastle: Incorrect bracket order of generic type. (prototype)

13. Sandcastle: Method name has double '()' in prototype style

14. Sandcastle: Move "UnsupportedExplicit_JSharp" from vs2005/hana to shared file

15. Sandcastle: MRefBuilder Namespace Ripping Bug with /internal+ option

16. Sandcastle: Nested type split type name with two dots. (prototype)

17. Sandcastle: No index entry in hxs build (prototype style)

18. Sandcastle: Open a new window when a MSDN-link is being clicked

19. Sandcastle: Printing issue of prototype transforms

20. Sandcastle: Problems about "public event" in cpp project.

21. Sandcastle: Problems in compiling html help due to encoding settings

22. Sandcastle: Reflection file is not correct if we have overloaded constructors (prototype style)

23. Sandcastle: Set "style" attribute to "cpp" for ManagedCPlusPlus

24. Sandcastle: Some type's FullName is showing up incorrectly. (vsorcas style)

25. Sandcastle: The "Type Parameters" are showing up differently between "Class" and "Members" page.

26. Sandcastle: Provide 5 Start Feedback Control

27. SandCastle: The icon of protected delegate is shown as public in .chm file

28. SandCastle: The member of enumeration in “Members” section has a link to self page.

29. Sandcastle: The method signature in "Members" section looks uncorrectly. (vsorcas style, Language Filter: Visual C++)

30. Sandcastle: There is an unhandled Exception araise when I run Build_sandcastle with vsorcas style

31. Sandcastle: When a method overrides another, the name of the class defining the original method is not present in the description

32. Sandcastle: when jump to a page, the default Language Filter is C#, and the page style is "VB" (vsorcas)

33. Sandcastle: When there are many constructors, the title of the group page, in the TOC, starts with a dot. The starting dot should be removed

34. Sandcastle:langword "null" is not rendering in vs2005 style

Issues fixed in this version (Features and Bugs as a part of Orcas RTM):

Approximately 500 work items for Orcas (Visual Studio 2008) RTM. I will be happy to publish a list if users are interested.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2007
    PingBack from http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/10/01/announcing-september-2007-sandcastle-release/

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2007
    Sandcastle September 2007 release was shipped without the Framework reflection data. This allowed us

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2007
    I think it was announced almost three weeks ago, but it is finally released today. There are obviously

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2007
    Microsoft ha liberado una nueva CTP de SandCastle, en este caso la CTP de Septiembre de 2007. Han pasado

  • Anonymous
    October 02, 2007
    Sandcastle September 2007 release includes the VersionBuilder tool under ProductionTools folder to provide

  • Anonymous
    October 02, 2007
    Sandcastle September 2007 release includes the VersionBuilder tool under ProductionTools folder to provide

  • Anonymous
    October 04, 2007
    The Sandcastle CTP release was released on Tuesday 2 Oct 2007, view the blog Announcing September 2007

  • Anonymous
    October 25, 2007
    Sandcastle is a tool from Microsoft to generate documentation as help files from the XML comments in

  • Anonymous
    October 29, 2007
    Only a few weeks after the September release of Sandcastle, Microsoft have already released the October

  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2008
    Reference C#XMLdocumentationcommentsFAQ http://blogs.msdn.com/ansonh/archive/2006/09/11/750...