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Doxygen

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Author: Dimitri van Heesch
Latest version: 1.4.0
Description: Documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C# and D.
Doxygen can help you in three ways:
1. It can generate an on-line documentation browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in $\mbox{\LaTeX}$) from a set of documented source files. There is also support for generating output in RTF (MS-Word), PostScript, hyperlinked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix man pages. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources, which makes it easier to keep the documentation consistent with the source code.
2. You can configure Doxygen to extract the code structure from undocumented source files. This is useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions. You can also visualize the relations between the various elements by means of include dependency graphs, inheritance diagrams, and collaboration diagrams, which are all generated automatically.
3. You can even "abuse" doxygen for creating normal documentation (as I did for this manual).
Added: 2005-01-02
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable] Source code provided[SourceCodeProvided]

VSdocman

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Author: Helixoft
Latest version: 3.3
Description: Visual Studio add-in for commenting your C# and VB.NET source code files and for the automatically generating class documentation from them.
VSdocman parses the Visual Basic .NET and C# projects and automatically creates MSDN-like documentation with the table of contents, index, topics, cross-references, IntelliSense and F1 context sensitive help.

Features include:
- Add and use standard XML comments or JavaDoc comments in your source code.
- WYSIWYG comment editor to help you write your XML comments.
- Insert tables, lists, pictures, links and other formatting directly in your source code.
- Generate documentation in multiple and localizable output formats: HTML, CHM, Help2, RTF, XML (including the MSDN2 look).
- Integrate generated help into VS help system.
- Generate documentation in command line mode.
- Deploy Help2 documentation to the target computers using accompanied royalty-free command-line utility.
- Supports Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005.

Previous name: VBdocman .NET
Added: 2005-12-15
Updated: 2007-10-29
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Built for .NET 2[BuilfForDotNet2] Add-in[AddIn]

Online Help Viewer

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Author: X-tensive.com
Latest version: 1.0.5
Description: ASP.NET application exposing content of .CHM help files on the web, so users may browse them online using a web browser.
Online Help Viewer's user interface is similar to the built-in Windows Help Viewer (or the MSDN Library Viewer), which is familiar to Windows users.
Added: 2006-05-09
Attributes: Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable]

MGTEK Help Producer

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Author: MGTEK
Latest version: 1.0
Description: Help authoring tool that allows you to create Microsoft HTML Help 1.0 files, Microsoft Help 2.0 help files, and web based content from a Word document.
Microsoft Help 2.0 the help system used in Visual Studio .NET.
Added: 2004-03-02
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet]

C#Builder Goodies

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Author: KyrSoft
Latest version: 1.1
Description: Add-on module for the Borland C#Builder IDE that helps you to perform C# language specific reserved keyword and XML documentation autocompletions inside the C#Builder editor. Further it also includes a quick access WYSIWYG XML to HTML viewer helper and a keycode analyzer helper.
Added: 2005-10-27
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Add-in[AddIn] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable]

Doc-O-Matic

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Author: toolsfactory software
Latest version: 5.2
Description: Tool for source code documentation and help authoring.

Doc-O-Matic creates the documentation for your C/C++, IDL, C++/CLI, Managed C++, Delphi/Pascal, VB.NET, C#, MATLAB, JavaScript, ASPX, JSP and Java applications and components. It uses information about source code symbols and existing comments in source code files (any source files that support comments) and external documentation files and creates documentation based on popular IDE documentation styles.

Features include:
- a visualization and design tool for class hierarchies
- a graphical documentation QA tool
- a report generator
- compiles your documentation into customizable HTML Help 1.x, MS Help 2, WinHelp, browser-based Help or transforms it into a double-side printable PDF document or an XML file
- supports XMLDoc comments for C++/CLI, C# and VB.NET
- supports the .NET 2.0 features such as generics, partial types and static classes
- generated Help 2 systems integrate into the Visual Studio 2005 help system
Added: 2006-07-26
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Built for .NET 2[BuilfForDotNet2]

SharpPlus Html Help 2 Registration Toolkit

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Author: SharpPlus
Latest version: 1.0
Description: Utility that registers HTML Help 2 collections and titles.
It can be used to integrate HTML Help 2 to Visual Studio, Delphi, etc. without having to create manually the proper records in the Windows Installer database.

Features include:
- a GUI program to create registration configuration file and that can be used to test registration.
- a command line version, which can be redistributed to deploy the HTML Help collections.
- Supports registering HTML Help 2 to multiple targets such as VS.NET 2003 and Delphi 2005.
- Supports registering HTML Help 2 as plugin or merge topic.
- Free for non-commercial use without any functional limitation.
Added: 2005-05-12
Attributes: Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable]

Agent Smith

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Latest version: 1.1.0
Description: C# code style validation plugin for ReSharper.

Features include:
- Naming convention validation
- XML comment validation
- XML comment, string literals, identifiers and resources (.resx files) spell checking
- Smart paste
Added: 2008-02-25
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Built for .NET 2[BuilfForDotNet2] Add-in[AddIn] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable] Source code provided[SourceCodeProvided]

HTML Help Builder

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Author: West Wind Technologies
Latest version: 4.38
Description: Documentation system using a structured interface for creating documentation for your applications and components.
Features include:
- focus on content creation by separating the content and formatting through separate interface components
- customizable with HTML templates and style sheets used for layout customization and custom code blocks in the templates to allow generation of any kind of output
- designed to aid in creating developer documentation with imports for many kinds of component class interfaces including .NET, COM and Visual FoxPro classes
- integration with Visual Studio .NET as an add-in and the Visual FoxPro IDE
- HtmlHelp 2.0 Support - generates Hxs, and Merge Collections for VS.NET Integration
Added: 2004-11-20
Updated: 2006-05-27
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Built for .NET 2[BuilfForDotNet2] Add-in[AddIn]

Spices.Net

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Author: 9rays.Net
Latest version: 5.1
Description: Solution for protecting, researching, documenting and reverse engineering .NET assemblies.

Features include:
- Spices.Obfuscator: solution for reducing of the risk of infringement of the intellectual property with a console or a GUI. Also reduces assembly size and optimizes the speed of your application.
- Spices.Decompiler: decompilation/disassembling for IL (same functionality as Microsoft's ILDASM utility), C#, C++, VB.NET, J#; A visual decompiler allows the user to build a code flow diagram enabling to analyze the code execution.
- Spices.Modeler: models and diagrams that reflects various types of assembly members relationships and structure.
- Spices.Investigator: .NET metadata browser at low level, provides detailed information on tokens.
- Spices.Informer: assembly member information provider and reporter.
- Spices.Documenter: documentation creation and management connected to your code.
- Spices.Localizer: lets you localize your assemblies.
- Integrates with Visual Studio.

Previous name: IL-Obfuscator
Added: 2003-05-20
Updated: 2006-11-14
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Built for .NET 2[BuilfForDotNet2] Add-in[AddIn] Built for the Compact Framework[BuiltForCompactFramework] Built for Mono[Built for Mono]

Sandcastle

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Author: Microsoft
Latest version: September 2007 CTP (2.3.07930.06)
Description: Produces MSDN-style reference documentation for managed class libraries.
Sandcastle reflects over source assemblies and optionally integrates XML documentation comments.

Features include:
- Works with or without authored comments
- Supports generics and .NET 2.0
- Auto-generated index and TOC entries
- Auto-generated syntax declaration sections
- Auto-generated inheritance tables
- Code colorization
- Supports localization
- Compiler interface or Visual Studio add-in
- CHMBuilder for CHM generation
- Windows PowerShell script
Added: 2006-07-31
Updated: 2007-10-04
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Built for .NET 2[BuilfForDotNet2] Add-in[AddIn] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable] Built for the Compact Framework[BuiltForCompactFramework]

C#CommDog

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Author: SoftSolutions
Latest version: 1.1.0
Description: Analyzes and optimizes the documentation state of an C# project (.csproj).
All of the source code files of the project are checked for the correctness of their XML documentation. Missing and incorrect parts of every documentation comment are not only corrected and completed but also uniformed.

Features include:
- Processes all source code files of one C# project or a single code file
- Supports all elements of the C# language relevant for documentation
- Detects and corrects incomplete and incorrect documentation comments
- Generates missing documentation comments
- Uniforms all documentation comments
- Generates the improved XML documentation directly into source code
- Backs up the original state of your source code files as recoverable copies
- Generates Todo tags with date
Added: 2005-05-18
Updated: 2005-12-22
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable]

Help Integration Wizard

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Author: Microsoft
Latest version: Beta
Description: Integrates help with Visual Studio.
Microsoft provides the tools necessary to create the compiled help (HxS) files that make up a help collection. The Help Integration Wizard can assemble those HxS files into a help collection and create a Windows Installer project for the help collection's distribution.
A help collection that is integrated with Visual Studio .NET gives developers ready access to documentation through the IDE's Contents, Index, Search, and Dynamic Help windows.
Added: 2004-04-28
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable]

NDoc

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Latest version: 1.3
Description: Generates class libraries documentation from .NET assemblies and the XML documentation files generated by the C# compiler (or an add-on tool for VB.NET). NDoc uses add-on documenters to generate documentation in several different formats, including the MSDN-style HTML Help format (.chm), the Visual Studio .NET Help format (HTML Help 2), and MSDN-online style web pages.
Added: 2003-05-20
Updated: 2004-12-17
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable] Source code provided[SourceCodeProvided]

Document! X

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Author: Innovasys
Latest version: 5
Description: Automates the process of creating and maintaining documentation for:
- VB.NET/C#/Visual C++ .NET Projects (.NET Framework 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0)
- Visual Basic 5 or 6 Projects
- Compiled COM components and controls
- COM type libraries
- Access, SQL Server and Oracle databases
- XSD schemas or implied XML schemas

Features include:
- allows you to author additional content directly within a preview of the automatically generated page
- integrated with the Visual Basic and Visual Studio environments
- can use comments from Transact-SQL code, SQL Server extended attributes, XSD schema annotations and type library HelpStrings
- template-based
Added: 2003-05-20
Updated: 2006-05-30
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Built for .NET 2[BuilfForDotNet2] Add-in[AddIn]

VB.DOC

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Latest version: 0.4
Description: Free documentation system for the VB.NET programming language. It adds support for the "forgotten" XML documentation as it is provided in C#.

VB.DOC extracts the XML comments in your source code to a single XML file that has exactly the same structure as the one witch is generated by the C# compiler with the /doc switch. So, you can process this file with the same tools that are used for C#, for example NDoc.
Added: 2003-05-20
Updated: 2005-03-18
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Add-in[AddIn] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable] Source code provided[SourceCodeProvided]

CommentMakerPro

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Author: FeinSoftware
Latest version: 1.8
Description: Comment generation tool designed to work in Visual C++ under Visual Studio 2002 (7.0) and 2003 (7.1).
CommentMakerPro creates customizable function headers that you can adjust to most companies' documentation requirements.
Added: 2004-06-17
Updated: 2006-07-07
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Built for .NET 2[BuilfForDotNet2] Add-in[AddIn]

GhostDoc

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Author: SubMain
Latest version: 2.5
Description: Add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments for C# and VB, either by using existing documentation (e.g. of base classes or implemented interfaces), or by deducing from name and type of e.g. methods, properties, events, or parameters.

Features include:
- Generates XML comments based on code element type, parameters, name, and other contextual information
- For a derived class uses the base class documentation
- Assignable shortcut
- Configurable rules, acronyms and macros
- Import/Export of the configuration and the rules
- Option to re-build documentation
- Available for Visual Studio 2010, 2008 and 2005.
Added: 2003-11-30
Updated: 2009-06-01
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Built for .NET 2[BuilfForDotNet2] Add-in[AddIn] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable]

Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit

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Author: Microsoft
Latest version: 2003
Description: Set of documentation and tools for software developers and Help authors who wish to extend the help content in Visual Studio .NET.
Added: 2003-05-20
Updated: 2003-06-07
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable]

TeeGofer

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Author: Steema Software
Latest version: 2.0.0.1
Description: Help template builder for component writers working in Visual Studio .NET.
Added: 2003-05-20
Updated: 2003-10-09
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet]

CommentMaker

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Author: FeinSoftware
Description: Comment generation tool designed to work in Visual C++ under Visual Studio 2002 (7.0) and 2003 (7.1).
CommentMaker creates customizable function headers.
Added: 2004-06-17
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Add-in[AddIn] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable]

VB.NET XML Comments Creator

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Author: Fesersoft
Latest version: 1.0.2.0
Description: This application will allow any .NET language to create the same XML Comment file that C# and J# creates.
By using this application, you will be able to give your applications full Intellisense abilities. C# and J# are the only languages that have built in support in the compiler to create the XML Comment file used by Visual Studio .NET for Intellisense information. XML Comments Creator brings the rest of the .NET languages to the same level by allowing them to create a correctly formatted comment file. All the features of the C# and J# comments, including validation, has been included in this application.
Added: 2003-05-20
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable]

Quickdoc Viewer

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Author: KyrSoft
Latest version: 1.0 Beta
Description: Add-in module for Visual Studio that offers a WYSIWYG XML to HTML previewer for XML-based documentation comments.
Added: 2005-10-27
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Add-in[AddIn] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable]

PrettyCode.Print for .NET

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Author: SubMain
Latest version: 1.7.07251
Description: Standalone managed application and VS.NET add-in that enables you to produce styled color-coded printouts of .NET source code.
PrettyCode.Print for .NET supports both C# and VB.NET solutions.

Features include:
- Syntax highlighting
- Selective printing
- Auto indent
- Watermarks
- Export output to PDF
- Line numbering; Line bracket connections; Line spacing
- Member separator; Class separator
- Page layout; Print output control; Print preview
- Procedure index
- Support for Visual Studio 2005, 2003, 2002, VB 8.0 and C# 2.0
Added: 2007-10-19
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Built for .NET 2[BuilfForDotNet2] Add-in[AddIn]

CR_Documentor

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Author: Travis Illig
Latest version: 1.8.2.0510
Description: Visual Studio add-in that allows you to see a preview of your XML document comments - à la Roeder's original Documentor - in real-time, as you edit the comments.

Features include:
- ability to choose the level of tags you want to be "compatible" with, the manner in which "unrecognized" tags are handled, and other formatting options.
- context-menu support to aid in working with XML documentation comments, including inserting templates, embedding selections in templates, toggling outlining on XML doc comments, and toggling visibility of the CR_Documentor window.
Added: 2006-01-24
Attributes: Built for .NET[BuiltForDotNet] Built for .NET 2[BuilfForDotNet2] Add-in[AddIn] Free or free version available[FreeVersionAvailable]
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