Programmer Help Documentation

[Simon Canning]

I have developed a Visual Basic application and have been asked to develop some Programmer Documentation. What exactly is programmer documentation and is there a tool that can produce this documentation from a Visual Basic application (Kind of like the Generate Sequence Diagram, but for Programmer Documentation).

[jmcilhinney]

Programmer documentation would be something like the MSDN Library. You can annotate your types and members with XML comments and they will then be used automatically by Intellisense. There are also various tools that can turn them into MSDN-like documentation. There was a tool named NDoc that could do it but it was discontinued some time ago. Microsoft themselves use something named Sandcastle, which is what you should probably look at first.

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