.NET Documentation Tool for C#/VB.NET 10.1

The .NET Documentation Tool code documentor tool automatically builds 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], word processor compatible RTF [sample], XML [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 10.1 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• The SQL Server database documentation routines have been reworked in order to provide greater
  compatibility with the schemas functionality introduced with SQL Server 2005.
  This improves the quality of the documentation produced for SQL Server Views, Stored Procedures and Triggers.

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.NET Documentation Tool for C#/VB.NET 10.0

The .NET Documentation Tool code documentor tool automatically builds 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], word processor compatible RTF [sample], XML [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 10.0 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• Custom web controls (e.g. ajaxToolkit:CalendarExtender and Web:ChartControl) are now identified
  and added to the documentation for ASP.NET web applications.
  This improves the documentation created for ASP.NET web applications that make use of 3rd party web controls.


• Added the CustomWebControls configuration option.
  
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.NET Documentation Tool for C#/VB.NET 9.8

The .NET Documentation Tool code documentor tool automatically builds 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], word processor compatible RTF [sample], XML [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 9.8 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• The page details page for VB.NET files now shows the Summary XML comment for the main class if one was added to the source code.
  
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.NET Documentation Tool for C#/VB.NET 9.7

Our .NET Documentation Tool code documentor utility automatically builds 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 (MySQL support coming soon!). There is enhanced functionality for documenting ASP.NET web applications.

Reports are created in HTML [sample], Microsoft's HTML Help [sample], word processor compatible RTF [sample], XML [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 9.7 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• The .NET Documentation Tool now has an option to create RTF format documentation from .NET Framework source code. These RTF files are compatible with document processing tools such as Word processors, and make it much easier to print copies of an application's technical documentation. Like the XML output option, to get the most out of this option your source code should use both namespaces and XML comments. Note that classes not identified as belonging to a namespace will appear in the NoNamespace.rtf file.


• The detection of C# methods has been improved.

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.NET Documentation Tool for C#/VB.NET 9.6

The .NET Documentation Tool code documentor tool automatically builds 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], word processor compatible RTF [sample], XML [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 9.6 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• XML comments associated with C# and VB.NET Enumerators are now extracted from .NET source code and are displayed in the resulting documentation.


• The number of VB.NET and C# enumerators in a project is now displayed in the summary
  page of the HTML format documentation.


• Improved the detection of VB.NET and C# subroutines.


• The detection of Method parameter XML comments is now recorded in the log file.


• XML comments are now displayed with better line breaking and the detection of markup
  tags has been improved.

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.NET Documentation Tool Code Documentor 9.5

The .NET Documentation Tool code documentor tool automatically builds 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], word processor compatible RTF [sample], XML [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 9.5 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• The .NET Documentation Tool now has an option to create XML format documentation from .NET Framework source code. This is similar functionality to that provided using Visual Studio's "XML document file" option (or the /doc:file compiler option). The .NET
  Documentation Tool does, however have a number of advantages over the facility provided in Visual Studio:
  
  
  • XML is created for all members, even if they do not have XML comments associated with them.
  
  
  • It is possible to generate a XML file for any type of project that uses namespaces (even web applications!).
  
  
  • Members are listed alphabetically.
  
  
  • Members not in Namespaces are included in a "NoNamespace" RTF and XML file.
  
  
  • Visual Studio is not required!
  
  

  Note that a single XML file is created for each namespace used in the application that
  is documented. The XML file is saved in the output folder with the name NamespaceName.xml. To get the most out of this output option, your source code should use both namespaces and XML comments. To display correctly in XML rendering applications such as Internet Explorer, the XML comments in the application's source code should be well formed.
  
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.NET Documentation Tool 9.4 (C#/VB.NET)

The .NET Documentation Tool source code documentor tool automatically builds 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], word processor compatible RTF [sample], XML [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 9.4 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• .NET Framework namespaces (e.g. System.IO) referenced by the using statement (C#) or Import (VB.NET) are now optionally hyperlinked or colour coded within the source code.
  
  
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.NET Documentation Tool 9.3 (C#/VB.NET)

The .NET Documentation Tool code documentor tool automatically builds 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], word processor compatible RTF [sample], XML [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 essential utility in understanding and documenting your (or someone else's!) applications. Versions for ASP and Visual Basic 6.0 are also available.

Changes in version 9.3 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• Improved detection of VB.NET properties with underscores or hypens in their names.


• Improved the detection of VB.NET functions and subroutines.


• Improved the syntax highlighting of VB.NET and C# application source code.


• The documentation has been revised.


• The GUI now shows a warning that the component folder path is not always required as the
  .NET Documentation Tool will automatically detect component files within input folders or
  their sub-folders (this includes code in the standard App_Code folder).


• Improved the GUI's file loading and saving file requester.
  
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.NET Documentation Tool 9.2 (C#/VB.NET)

The .NET Documentation Tool code documentor tool automatically builds 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], word processor compatible RTF [sample], XML [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. Code documentors for ASP and Visual Basic 6.0 are also available.

Changes in version 9.2 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• Improved the documentation of namespaces.


• There is a new DisplayParentFolderName configuration option (shown as "Display Parent Folder Name" in the GUI). If selected, this option causes the .NET Documentation Tool to include the folder name of files being documented in the documentation. This option improves the display of documentation for projects that span multiple folder locations. For example, if a project was located in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\SalesWebsite and C:\components\Web\CommonComponents, the .NET Documentation Tool will create top level folder names of "SalesWebsite" and "CommonComponents" within the documentation. This is particularly beneficial for the HTML Help formatted output. It also makes it more straightforward to document your entire code library and compile it into a single, searchable HTML Help file.


• Improved regular expression pattern matching error handling.


• Improved spacing of links in bottom right hand frame of HTML report.


• Revised help: added SQL Server 2005 sample connection string, added DisplayMethods to table of contents, added DisplayParentFolderName to the list of configuration options.
  
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.NET Documentation Tool 9.1 (C#/VB.NET)

The .NET Documentation Tool code documentor tool automatically builds 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 9.1 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• The GUI in the registered version now has the ability to check to see if any product updates are available.
  
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.NET Documentation Tool 9.0 (C#/VB.NET)

The .NET Documentation Tool code documentor tool automatically builds 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 9.0 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• There is now some provisional support for XAML files used in WPF/Silverlight applications. Note that this technology is still in the early stages of development by Microsoft and may be subject to change. XAML files are documented as XML. VB.NET or C# code behind files associated with the XAML files are automatically detected.


• Work to add .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 3.5 and C# 3.0 support to the .NET Documentation Tool has started.


• C# 3.0 is now supported.

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.NET Documentation Tool 8.8 (C#/VB.NET)

The .NET Documentation Tool code documentor tool automatically builds 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 timesaving utility in understanding your (or someone
else's!) applications. Versions for ASP and Visual Basic 6.0 are also available.

Changes in version 8.8 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• Added an improved SQL Server 2005 connection string example to the help file.


• HTTP Handler (also known as web handler) files are now documented (these normally have the file extension .ashx). This change improves the documentation of ASP.NET web applications.


• Added sample Web Handler file (LogoutHandler.ashx) to SampleWeb.NET sample project.

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.NET Documentation Tool 8.7 (C#/VB.NET)

The .NET Documentation Tool code documentor automatically builds 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, including support for web.config files, CSS files, user controls and web services.

The .NET Documentation Tool builds documentation in 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 8.7 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• The handling of the .NET Framework 2.0's partial classes has been improved. The .NET Documentation Tool will now show partial classes as a single class with its entities spread across different file locations.


• Constructor arguments in VB.NET are now being displayed properly.


• Fixed erroneous alt tag on Components link in bottom right hand frame of HTML format report.


• Detection of C# classes has been improved.


• User control detection in source code is now logged to the project's log file.


• The code documentor's detection of ASP.NET controls (web and validation controls) has been improved.


• Hyperlink spacing in bottom right hand frame of HTML format documentation has been improved.


• Reworked the way a project's number of classes are calculated - it now takes partial classes into account.


• More .NET Framework 2.0 sample code added to the sample project.

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

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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.NET Documentation Tool 8.4

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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.NET Documentation Tool 8.2

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 8.2 of the .NET Documentation Tool are:

• C# Properties are now detected and documented.


• .NET Framework 2.0 generic classes are now recognised.


• Improved table spacing within function and subroutine details pages, making argument's XML comments easier to read.


• List of constructors now correctly points to appropriate VB.NET or C# constructors list page.

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.NET Documentation Tool 8.1

The .NET Documentation Tool automatically creates comprehensive project documentation for .NET and ASP.NET applications written in either C# or VB.NET. Changes in version 8.1 are:

• Enumerators now listed in page details pages.
• Enumerators now listed in class details pages.
• More code added to sample project.
• Improved detection of VB.NET enumerators.

.NET Documentation Tool 8.0

The .NET Documentation Tool automatically creates comprehensive project documentation for .NET and ASP.NET applications written in either C# or VB.NET. Changes in version 8.0 are:

• VB.NET Properties are now documented.
• Improved the detection of VB.NET functions and subroutines.
• The Value XML Comment tag is now supported (it is used to document Properties).
• XML Comment detection has been improved.

.NET Documentation Tool 7.9

The .NET Documentation Tool automatically creates comprehensive project documentation for .NET and ASP.NET applications written in either C# or VB.NET. Changes in version 7.9 are:

• Stopped files in App_Code folders being detected multiple times.
• Detection of component files has been improved.
• In response to user requests, it is now possible to add a copyright string to pages within the documentation (this feature is not customisable in the evaluation version).
• Improved the colour coding of XML files.
• Improved the detection of VB.NET functions.
• Javascript Pages heading now omitted from documentation if there are no JavaScript files in the project.

.NET Documentation Tool 7.8 Changes

The .NET Documentation Tool creates comprehensive technical documentation for .NET and ASP.NET projects written in either C# or VB.NET. Forthcoming changes in version 7.8 of the .NET Documentation Tool:

• The XML Comment parsing routine has been rewritten, allowing more tags to be supported in this and subsequent versions of the .NET Documentation Tool. See Recommended XML Tags for Documentation Comments for details of the tags that can be used to document .NET source code with the XML commenting system.
• The XML Comment exception, paramref, see and seealso tags are now fully supported in both C# and VB.NET source code.
• The XML Comment list tag is now supported. This tag allows bulleted or numbered lists as well as tables to be incorporated into the XML Comment documentation produced by the .NET Documentation Tool.
• Subroutine argument XML Comments are now extracted from source code.
• The HTML output for a project's functions and subroutines has been improved.