Even kids can build Sandcastles

SoftTeq partner, fellow Perth-ITe and co-ordinator of the Perth .NET Community of Practice, Alastair has posted a link to the March 2007 CTP of Sandcastle - a documentation project for .NET similar to what NDoc did.  I posted on this back in August last year where I observed that the process of using the tool was less than obvious. 

I figured since I had so harshly condemed it last time that I'd better go across and take a look.  Well I got as far as reading the instructions for installation (didn't even download it this time).  In the instructions there is a link of to another set of instructions for working with a sample project - this has 12 steps!! I'm sorry but 12 steps to RUN a sample just doesn't cut it.  No thanks, try again Microsoft.

Published Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:39 AM by nick
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:09 AM by neilco

# re: Even kids can build Sandcastles

Forget about using Sandcastle from the command-line. Go get the Sandcastle Help File Builder from codeplex.com

http://codeplex.com/shfb/

This is similar to the NDoc GUI and works just as well. I've gone one step further and created a MSBuild Task so that I can use the SHFB in my automated builds.