Engineer help file from DLL library

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mdomke
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Engineer help file from DLL library

Unread post by mdomke »

I am curious to know if there is a tool that will engineer a help file directly from a DLL file? I have many libraries in which I need to create a developers help file identifying all the classes, methods, functions, procedures, properties, etc... that are defined in each library file. This doesn't need to be a help file that integrates directly within any specific IDE but it does need to be formatted much like many of the help files you might find with any developers component.

If there is anything that will do this with any sort of automation I would be very interested in learning what that is. Considering the number of libraries I have to do and the volume of classes and the such in each library, it would be an enormous task to have to do this manually. Does H&M do this?

I hope I explained this well enough. Any help and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
mbd
Pete Lees
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Unread post by Pete Lees »

Hi,

Here are a few tools that I've heard about. Not being a developer, I'm not sure how precisely they meet your needs, but you may want to try the evaluation versions in one or two cases.

Document! X
http://www.innovasys.com/products/dx2008/overview.aspx

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

Sandcastle
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb608422.aspx

HTML Help COM Assistant
http://www.devcomponents.com/comassistant/

Pete
Last edited by Pete Lees on Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.
mdomke
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Unread post by mdomke »

Thanks Pete,

Your suggestions are exactly what I'm looking for.

-mbd
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