Wednesday 31 October 2007

ASP Documentation Tool 7.1

The ASP Documentation Tool™ creates comprehensive technical documentation for ASP web applications written in either VBScript or JScript.
Any Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access databases and Visual Basic 6.0 COM objects associated with the application can also be documented if required.

Reports are created in HTML [sample], Microsoft's HTML Help [sample] and text [sample] formats. Color coded, syntax highlighted copies of the ASP, SQL and VB code are included with the reports. The compiled HTML Help reports include fully searchable source code, making the
ASP Documentation Tool™ an invaluable utility in understanding your (or someone
else's!) ASP web applications. A version for the .NET Framework is also available.

Changes in version 7.1 are:


  • SQL Server 2005 system table sysdiagrams is now excluded from SQL Server database reports.

  • SQL Server 2005 system views owned by user 'sys' are now excluded from SQL Server database reports.

  • The following SQL Server 2005 system stored procedures are no longer documented: 'sp_alterdiagram', 'sp_creatediagram', 'sp_dropdiagram', 'sp_helpdiagramdefinition', 'sp_helpdiagrams', 'sp_renamediagram', 'sp_upgraddiagrams' and 'fn_diagramobjects'.

  • Email addresses report page now says "In page" rather than "Called from".

  • Form text area value extraction has been improved.

  • Help file updated, including the addition of more SQL Server connection strings.

  • Added FAQ entry in help relating to the KTML browser-based WYSIWYG HTML editor's ktml.js file.

  • VBScript ASP pages containing client-side JavaScript linked to external URLs are no longer identified as being written in JScript.

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Monday 29 October 2007

SQL Documentation Tool 7.1

The SQL Documentation Tool is a complete documentation solution for Microsoft SQL Server databases. It automatically creates comprehensive technical documentation reports for databases, saving valuable developer time and money.

Reports are created in HTML [sample], Microsoft's HTML Help [sample], RTF [sample] and text [sample] formats. Color coded, syntax highlighted copies of the Transact SQL associated with stored procedures, functions and views are included with the reports. The compiled HTML Help reports includes an index and search facility.

Version 7.1 offers the following update:

  • In response to user demand, the SQL Documentation Tool now has options to specify what should be documented in a project. It is now possible to document all/some or none of the following: tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, full-text catalogs, indexes, jobs and DTS packages.

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Monday 8 October 2007

Documenting VB.NET source code with XML Comments

Posted new article about how to document Visual Basic.NET source code using Microsoft's XML Comments. The article contains code samples and a full XML comment reference guide.

Read the article at: http://www.softwaredocumentation.info/DocumentingVBNet.aspx

Documenting C# source code with XML Comments

Posted new article about how to document C# source code using Microsoft's XML Comments. The article contains code samples and a full XML comment reference guide.

Read the article at: http://www.softwaredocumentation.info/DocumentingCSharp.aspx

Wednesday 3 October 2007

How to write good software documentation

Posted new article about how to write good quality software documentation. This article contains guidelines for producing high quality software documentation.

Read the article at: http://www.softwaredocumentation.info/DocumentingSoftware.aspx

Tuesday 2 October 2007

ASP Documentation Tool 7.0

The ASP Documentation Tool™ creates comprehensive technical documentation for ASP web applications written in either VBScript or JScript.
Any Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access databases and Visual Basic 6.0 COM objects associated with the application can also be documented if required.

Reports are created in HTML [sample], Microsoft's HTML Help [sample] and text [sample] formats. Color coded, syntax highlighted copies of the ASP, SQL and VB code are included with the reports. The compiled HTML Help reports include fully searchable source code, making the
ASP Documentation Tool™ an invaluable utility in understanding your (or someone
else's!) ASP web applications. A version for ASP.NET is also available.

Changes in version 7.0 are:


  • Improved logging of the FindMultiLineArgs routine and improved the detection of functions by this routine.

  • Visual Basic COM object source code is now HTML encoded.

  • Fix issue whereby database table columns were not being detected if there was a problem extracting details of triggers.
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