Documentation Tools

SQL Documentation Tool 7.6 for SQL Server

2008-04-29T01:26:00.000-07:00

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 7.6 offers the following update:

There is now an option to document dependency information for database tables, views, stored procedures and triggers. Note: Dependency information will not be shown for triggers unless database tables are documented. Documenting dependencies may significantly slow down the data extraction routines, particularly on very large databases.

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.NET Documentation Tool 8.6 (C#/VB.NET)

2008-04-01T02:04:00.000-07:00

The .NET Documentation Tool creates comprehensive technical software documentation for .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET or C#. Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access databases associated with the application may also be documented if required. There is special functionality for documenting ASP.NET web applications. (Classic ASP version also available).

Reports are created in HTML [sample], Microsoft's HTML Help [sample] and text [sample] formats. Color coded, syntax highlighted copies of the .NET and SQL code are included with the reports. The compiled HTML Help reports include fully searchable source code, making the
.NET Documentation Tool an invaluable utility in understanding your (or someone
else's!) applications. Versions for ASP and Visual Basic 6.0 are also available.

Changes in version 8.6 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

If the .NET Documentation Tool is run using the graphical user interface, the console window now appears for longer if there is an error, making it easier to resolve the issue. Most errors are caused by the specified input or output folders not existing.

The OutputDir option is no longer saved to the configuration file - the correct option is OutputFolder.

The LogFileDir option is no longer saved to the configuration file as the option is not required.

Saving the configuration file now shows the filename of the configuration file that is being overwritten.

The installer has been changed.

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SQL Documentation Tool 7.5

2008-03-25T04:36:00.000-07:00

Version 7.5 offers the following updates:

The documentation has been revised.

Added link on application's Help menu to http://www.softwaredocumentation.info/.

The HTML format documentation includes a date and timestamp to show when the data was extracted and when the documentation was generated.

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VB Documentation Tool 1.4

2008-03-18T06:09:00.000-07:00

The VB Documentation Tool automatically creates comprehensive technical documentation for Visual Basic 6.0 projects and their associated SQL Server or Microsoft Access databases.

Reports are created in HTML [sample], Microsoft's HTML Help [sample] and text [sample] formats. Color coded, syntax highlighted copies of the Visual Basic source code is included with the reports. The compiled HTML Help reports include fully searchable source code, making the VB Documentation Tool an invaluable utility in understanding your (or someone else's!) Visual Basic 6.0 web applications. A VB.NET version is also available.

Download trial version (1.4Mb ZIP file).

Version 1.4 has the following enhancements:

Properties are now documented, including where their Get, Set and Let values are assigned.

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

.NET Documentation Tool 8.5

2008-03-11T04:14:00.000-07:00

The .NET Documentation Tool creates technical software documentation for .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET or C#. Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access databases associated with the application may also be documented if required. There is enhanced functionality for documenting ASP.NET web applications. An ASP version is also available.

Reports are created in HTML [sample], Microsoft's HTML Help [sample] and text [sample] formats. Color coded, syntax highlighted copies of the .NET and SQL code are included with the reports. The compiled HTML Help reports include fully searchable source code, making the
.NET Documentation Tool an invaluable utility in understanding your (or someone
else's!) applications. Versions for ASP and Visual Basic 6.0 are also available.

Changes in version 8.5 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

The Frequently Asked Questions help page has been updated.

Improved the detection of VB.NET functions.

Improved the detection of C# classes.

Fixed a broken link issue in the documentation that was affecting enumerators.

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SQL Documentation Tool 7.4 for SQL Server

2008-03-04T01:01:00.000-08:00

The SQL Documentation Tool is a complete documentation solution for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000 and 2005 databases. It automatically creates comprehensive technical documentation reports for databases, saving valuable developer/DBA time and money.

Version 7.4 of the SQL Documentation Tool contains the following updates:

Added a progress bar to the status panel which updates during both data extraction and documentation generation activities. Note that HTML Help compilation time can only be estimated.

Corrected a typo on the Edit Database Connection window.

All windows made modal within the graphical user interface, improving application usability.

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.NET Documentation Tool 8.4

2008-02-19T00:48:00.000-08:00

The .NET Documentation Tool creates comprehensive technical software documentation for .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET or C#. Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access databases associated with the application may also be documented if required. There is enhanced functionality for documenting ASP.NET web applications.

Reports are created in HTML [sample], Microsoft's HTML Help [sample] and text [sample] formats. Color coded, syntax highlighted copies of the .NET and SQL code are included with the reports. The compiled HTML Help reports include fully searchable source code, making the
.NET Documentation Tool an invaluable utility in understanding your (or someone
else's!) applications. Versions for ASP and Visual Basic 6.0 are also available.

Changes in version 8.4 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

Multiple databases associated with the .NET project are now documented properly.

It is now possible to document a database with the same name that exists on more than one server.

The SQL Server 2005 system table sysdiagrams is 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'.

SQL Server 2005 table columns are now correctly extracted from certain databases.

Triggers are now detected in SQL Server 2005 databases that use Schemas.

Relationships are now detected in SQL Server 2005 databases using Schemas.

Relationships are now correctly detected if a previous database error was encountered.

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VB Documentation Tool 1.3

2008-02-11T02:57:00.000-08:00

The VB Documentation Tool automatically creates comprehensive project documentation for Visual Basic 6.0 projects and their associated SQL Server or Microsoft Access databases.

Download trial version ZIP file.

Version 1.3 has the following enhancements:

Source code page titles are more descriptive.

Multi-line comments using the underscore character are now supported.

SQL Documentation Tool 7.3 for SQL Server

2008-02-05T02:48:00.000-08:00

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

Version 7.3 offers the following update:

The system table 'sysdiagrams' is now excluded from SQL Server 2005 reports.

Views with the table owner of 'sys' are now correctly excluded from SQL Server 2005 reports.

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

The date and time of errors is now added to the error log file.

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VB Documentation Tool 1.2

2008-01-28T01:13:00.000-08:00

The VB Documentation Tool automatically creates comprehensive project documentation for Visual Basic 6.0 projects and their associated SQL Server or Microsoft Access databases.

Download trial version (1.4Mb ZIP file).

Version 1.2 has the following enhancements:

Buy now links added to evaluation version's graphical user interface.

Source code pages link back to the item's project and project group (if it is within a group).

ASP Documentation Tool 7.4

2008-01-14T01:28:00.000-08:00

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 7.4 are:

Added an "Alerts Report" to the "Extras Report". This report currently shows the following: pages using the unsupported scripting languages PerlScript and Python, and pages using the Microsoft Script Encoder.

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A code documentor for .NET is also available.

ASP.NET Search Engine Creation

2008-01-08T05:26:00.000-08:00

Our web crawling product The Website Utility 3.1 is now able to create an ASP.NET search engine for any website.

The ASP.NET search facility is fully .NET Framework compliant, being class based (with properties and methods) and returns search results as a standard .NET DataSet which can be used to populate .NET controls including DataViews and DataGrids. A fully annotated example search form and search results page is included.

See building an ASP.NET search engine for a technical reference with example .NET source code.

ASP Documentation Tool 7.3

2007-12-18T01:05:00.000-08:00

The ASP Documentation Tool™ creates comprehensive technical documentation for ASP web applications written in either VBScript or JScript.
Any Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005 databases, 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 which supports VB.NET and C# is also available.

Changes in version 7.3 are:

Entities such as functions, subroutines and constants are now shown in case-insensitive alphabetical order.

Stopped single lines with just a single quote from showing in VBScript function comments.

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VB.NET Error Handling Using Try ... Catch Blocks

2007-12-18T01:03:00.000-08:00

Added a new VB.NET tutorial article to the website:

VB.NET Error Handling Using Try ... Catch Blocks. Exception handling in VB.NET is one of the greatest improvements over Visual Basic 6.0. This tutorial shows how to trap those errors.

SQL Documentation Tool 7.2 for SQL Server

2007-12-10T06:11:00.000-08:00

Version 7.2 offers the following update:

Database stored procedures are now listed in the RTF format report, complete with optional colour coding and syntax highlighting of the Transact SQL. Note that some RTF documents may need to be imported into WordPad and saved again before they can be opened with Microsoft Word.

Table indexes are now listed on the table details page.

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Improving VB.NET application string handling performance

2007-11-30T03:58:00.000-08:00

Added a new VB.NET tutorial article to the website: Improving VB.NET application string handling performance.

ASP Documentation Tool 7.2

2007-11-26T02:52:00.000-08:00

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 (C#/VB.NET) is also available.

Changes in version 7.2 are:

Source code pages now link back to the page details page.

ADO command timeout increased to 2 minutes in database documentation routines.

CDO, MAPI and AmHTML objects now reported in appropriate case.

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.NET Documentation Tool 8.3

2007-11-14T01:49:00.000-08:00

The .NET Documentation Tool creates comprehensive technical software documentation for .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET or C#. Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access databases associated with the application may also be documented if required. There is enhanced functionality for documenting ASP.NET web applications.

Reports are created in HTML [sample], Microsoft's HTML Help [sample] and text [sample] formats. Color coded, syntax highlighted copies of the .NET and SQL code are included with the reports. The compiled HTML Help reports include fully searchable source code, making the
.NET Documentation Tool an invaluable utility in understanding application source code. Versions for ASP and Visual Basic 6.0 are also available.

Changes in version 8.3 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

In response to user requests, it is now possible to specify a string of HTML that can be added to the HEAD portion of the HTML files created by the .NET Documentation Tool. An example use of this is to allow a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) file to be specified.
Improved the detection of C# and VB.NET properties.
Improved the detection of C# and VB.NET items.
Improved the detection of C# and VB.NET subroutines.

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ASP Documentation Tool 7.1

2007-10-31T03:38:00.000-07:00

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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SQL Documentation Tool 7.1

2007-10-29T03:03:00.000-07:00

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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Documenting VB.NET source code with XML Comments

2007-10-08T07:53:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-08T07:48:00.001-07:00

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

How to write good software documentation

2007-10-03T01:26:00.000-07:00

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

ASP Documentation Tool 7.0

2007-10-02T03:09:00.000-07:00

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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SQL Documentation Tool 7.0

2007-09-27T02:04:00.000-07:00

Version 7.0 offers the following updates:

Changed the way stored procedure field lengths are reported. Lengths are now reported only for fields of type char, nchar, varchar, nvarchar and varbinary. nchar and nvarchar field lengths are reported in terms of the amount of characters that can be stored within them.

Stored procedure column types (e.g. input, output etc.) are now included in the report.

GUI buttons now disabled while data being extracted or project being documented.

It is now possible to specify an HTML report colour scheme.

Added tooltips to the Project options Window.

The project options now include the ability to include a user-specified HTML snippet within the HEAD element of the pages produced by the SQL Documentation Tool. This makes it possible to add a custom Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) to format the HTML report's output.

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