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Enabling managed class library developers throughout the world to easily create accurate, informative documentation with a common look and feel.

• Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. Sandcastle has the following key features:
  
  
• Works with or without authored comments


• Supports Generics and .NET Framework 2.0


• Sandcastle has 2 main components (MrefBuilder and Build Assembler)


• MrefBuilder generates reflection xml file for Build Assembler


• Build Assembler includes syntax generation, transformation..etc


• Sandcastle is used internally to build .Net Framework documentation

Files

Status: Live This download is still available on microsoft.com. The downloads below will come directly from the Microsoft Download Center.

File	Size
Sandcastle.msi SHA1: 87fdb6d67e5659908f558b9e094ee73ea2544498	6.98 MB

File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

• Required Software:
  
  • Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0, available here
  
  
  • HTML Help Workshop available here
  Optional Software:
  
  • Visual Studio 2005
  
  
  • MS Help Compiler from VS SDK here
  
  

• 1. Uninstall previous versions of Sandcastle.
  2. Click on the "Download" button above to install Sandcastle.
  3. After installing Sandcastle, follow the steps here to create a sample CHM or HxS build.
  4. Visit Sandcastle blog for the release notes and latest information.
  
  Note: Installing VS SDK after installing Sandcastle will cause Sandcastle not to work properly as VS SDK installer updates both the PATH and DXROOT environment variables in the registry