Bottom Line

Documenting your application code doesn’t have to be difficult. This article shows that none of the steps are all that hard. In fact, you’ll probably do just a little more work than you do right now and you end up with a very useful help file as a result. Sandcastle itself is difficult to use and many developers have complained about it. However, when you combine Sandcastle with the Sandcastle Help File Builder, you end up with a combination that makes life easy for the developer.

BIO

John Mueller is a freelance author and technical editor. He has writing in his blood, having produced 81 books and over 300 articles to date. The topics range from networking to artificial intelligence and from database management to heads down programming. His current project is LINQ for Dummies (scheduled for publication in August 2008), which you can preorder at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470277947/datacservip0f-20/. His technical editing skills have helped over 56 authors refine the content of their manuscripts. You can reach John on the Internet at JMueller@mwt.net and his Web site at: http://www.mwt.net/~jmueller/.