API Documentation

[Patrick McGovern]

I can't seem to find any guidance around this...is there a way to generate
API documention for my classes using VS2005?

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Patrick,

No, there is not, not outright. What you have to do is generate the XML
documentation from your class. Once you have that, there are third party
tools you can use which will create help files, HTML files, etc, etc through
an XML transformation.

Hope this helps.

 

[Patrick McGovern]

Nicholas,

thanks! that does help. i see that option now. Do you have the names of any
of those 3rd party tools?

pat

Patrick,

No, there is not, not outright. What you have to do is generate the
XML documentation from your class. Once you have that, there are third
party tools you can use which will create help files, HTML files, etc, etc
through an XML transformation.

Hope this helps.

 

[Arnaud Debaene]

Nicholas,

thanks! that does help. i see that option now. Do you have the names
of any of those 3rd party tools?

NDoc (http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/)

Arnaud
MVP - VC

 

[Patrick McGovern]

NDoc (http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/)

thanks. i need one for VS 2005 though. kind of strange that MS doesnt
support this out of the box isnt it?