Tuesday, 19 February 2008

.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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Monday, 11 February 2008

VB Documentation Tool 1.3

The VB Documentation Tool automatically creates comprehensive project 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 for the .NET Framework.

Version 1.3 has the following enhancements:

  • Source code page titles are more descriptive.

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

Tuesday, 5 February 2008

SQL Documentation Tool 7.3 for SQL Server

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.

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 7.3 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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Monday, 28 January 2008

VB Documentation Tool 1.2

The VB Documentation Tool automatically creates comprehensive project 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.

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).

Monday, 14 January 2008

ASP Documentation Tool 7.4

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.

Tuesday, 8 January 2008

ASP.NET Search Engine Creation

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.

Tuesday, 18 December 2007

ASP Documentation Tool 7.3

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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