Welcome to the Sandcastle Styles Project

The goal of this project is to improve Sandcastle by providing a rolled-up solution to various presentation style issues in a manner that is highly visible to the Sandcastle community and also involves community feedback.

What's Available

• Sandcastle June 2010 Patch Rev 1 - This is a patch for the Sandcastle presentation style files that fixes most of the known bugs. It also includes enhancements to existing features.
• Documenting Web Projects 1.1.0.0 - This contains information on producing XML comments for web application and website projects. For website projects, custom code providers are included that make it much easier to obtain the XML comments files needed to create a help file using Sandcastle
• Sandcastle MAML Guide 1.1.0.0 - This is intended to be a reference that you can use to find out all that you need to know about Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (MAML) as used with Sandcastle to produce help files containing conceptual content.
• HTML to MAML Converter 1.0.0.1 - The purpose of this utility is to quickly convert a batch of HTML files into MAML topics along with some supporting files to save you from having to do it manually.

Sandcastle Documentation

• Overview
• Architecture
• Extensibility (Placeholder)
• Automation (Placeholder)

Future Plans
Work is under way to produce a set of example code and MAML files that you can use to see the effects of the various XML comments and MAML elements and learn how they can be used. In the future, custom presentation styles and language packs may also be made available.