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jmeckley
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# Posted on: 05-Mar-2008 22:51:20   

what, if any, software packages are you using to document your code? Managment is now reviewing our development practices and documentation is lacking by their standards.

I have heard of nDoc, but there doesn't seem to be any updates in 2 years. I have also heard of www.helixoft.com, but this seems $$$ to generate documentation.

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# Posted on: 06-Mar-2008 09:47:31   

I'd use sandcastle (from MS, it's on codeplex). It's arcane, but there are a couple of open source UI's for it. We use a commercial toolkit, DocumentX for the .NET 2.0+ docs. It's not really that great. it works, but it's a bit slow and sometimes it falls over.

There are a couple of ndoc forks though, some work 'ok' for .net 2.0 code however they too aren't mature enough. But perhaps today they have evolved in workable code, not sure.

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PilotBob
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# Posted on: 17-Mar-2008 19:45:52   

Take a look at Rick Strahl's Help Builder.

http://www.west-wind.com/wwhelp/

It is designed to create both end user doc and technical doc.

BOb