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Document! X delivers the best of both worlds by seamlessly combining automated documentation generation with a full WYSIWYG authoring environment. The generated output forms an accurate and comprehensive documentation set.
Document! X provides a highly productive environment in which Technical Writers can author, edit and validate documentation content. Any existing source content can be leveraged where available without compromising the Technical Writers ability to edit or override the final output.
These sample outputs illustrate how much can be generated by Document! X right out of the box. All of the Document! X Templates are fully customizable and can be easily adapted or extended to meet your specific requirements.
Lightbox Overview of a .NET class, including an automatically generated Object Relationship Diagram, Inheritance Hierarchy and Syntax in multiple .NET languages.
Lightbox Page for a specific .NET constructor overload, including a link to the method summary page listing other overloads.
Lightbox Overview of the COM class, including an automatically generated Object Relationship Diagram.
Lightbox Page generated for an XSD Complex Type, including a type diagram, overview data tree and XSD Source Code.
Lightbox Page generated for a Javascript method, documenting the syntax and parameters.
Lightbox Page generated for a Table, including Properties, Columns, Indexes, Relationships and SQL Source (where available). Also includes dependencies if documenting a Sql Server database.
Lightbox Page generated for a GET Operation in a REST Web Service. Details the parameters, request/response data types and any fault responses.
Lightbox Page generated for a SOAP Web Service method. Details the parameters, request/response data types and any fault responses.
Lightbox Schema diagrams are automatically generated for web service operations that use XSD Types and XSD documentation pages.
Any existing source content (.NET xml source comments, Web Service Definition descriptions, SQL Server Extended Properties, SQL/T-SQL/PL-SQL source comments, XSD Annotations, Javascript JsDoc or XML format source comments, Java Javadoc format source comments, COM HelpStrings ) can be automatically used in generated documentation and you can view the descriptions whilst you are editing in the Document! X Content File Editor in order to spot areas that need expansion and avoid duplication.
You can choose to author content in your source content, and/or using the rich authoring environment of the Document! X Content File editor. This flexibility allows you to include basic documentation in the source code and use the rich Document! X Content File editor to author extended content; or you chose some other approach that makes sense for your particular authoring workflow.
Lightbox In combination with, or as an alternative to authoring content in source comments (.NET documentation illustrated here), create and maintain documentation content using the Document! X Content File Editor.
Lightbox In combination with, or as an alternative to authoring content in source comments (Database documentation illustrated here), create and maintain documentation content using the Document! X Content File Editor.
Lightbox The Document! X Content File editor shows you the source comments ( .NET Xml format source comments, COM HelpStrings, XSD Annotations, Web Service Descriptions, SQL/T-SQL/PL-SQL Source Comments, Javadoc comments, JsDoc comments) whilst you are editing (.NET is shown here), so that you can instantly see where the source documentation might require additional detail or replacement. Document! X will automatically populate the description of members inherited from elsewhere in your assembly or the .NET Framework to further reduce the amount of documentation authoring effort.
Lightbox The generated documentation for classes and structures in .NET, Java, COM and Javascript documentation will automatically include an Object Relationship Diagram. These diagrams are invaluable in helping users of your documentation make sense of the object model contained in your components.
Lightbox Document! X can output to a variety of formats, including browser help for publishing to a website, CHM and Microsoft Help Viewer. Microsoft Help Viewer is the help technology used by Visual Studio. Integrating documentation with Microsoft Help Viewer ensures that help for the assemblies you document is only ever an F1 key press away.
These short movies provide a great way to discover what can be achieved using Document! X.
This movie will take you through the process of producing documentation from an XSD Schema file using Document! X. (10 mins)
This movie will demonstrate how Document! X can be used to create documentation for Javascript, both simple javascript function libraries as well as javascript object models and jQuery plugins and widgets. (13 mins)
This movie will take you through the process of producing documentation for a Web Service (SOAP or REST) using Document! X. (11 mins)
This introductory movie will take you through the process of creating a new Document! X Project for one or more Microsoft .NET Assemblies (13 minutes).
This short introductory movie will take you through the process of creating a new Document! X Project for a Database (7 minutes).
This short introductory movie will take you through the process of creating a new Document! X Project for a COM Component or Type Library (6 minutes).
This movie demonstrates the new Publishing functionality introduced in 2015.1. Publishing makes it easy to publish output generated by Document! X or HelpStudio to a web server or network location. A range of publishing methods are supported; you can publish to an Azure web site, a web site running on IIS, a web site that supports uploading via ftp, or directly to a local network path. (11 mins)
This video demonstrates how the Responsive Output feature allows you to generate content that automatically adapts to the device type of the browser, providing an optimal experience for Mobile, Tablet and Desktop users from a single output. (5 mins)
This short video provides a demonstration of how you can configure a project to create multiple outputs from a single source, with each output driven by a separate options defined in the Build Profile. (3 minutes)
Your documentation projects can be built to Browser Help, CHM (Html Help 1.x) or Microsoft Help Viewer (Visual Studio® 2010-2019). All of the specific requirements for the different output formats are handled for your automatically and you can build all outputs from a single project. Automatic publishing makes it quick and simple to deploy the generated output to your web site, ftp server or network location.
Lightbox Browser Help output is viewable directly in the web browser, so is the ideal format for publishing documentation on a web site or intranet site. The browser help output includes a Table of Contents, Index and Full Text Search.
Lightbox The automatically generated responsive support allows you to generate a single output that automatically adapts to the device profile; delivering an optimal browsing experience for Desktop, Tablet and Mobile from a single output. Tablet and Mobile devices benefit from buttonized links, a button based fly out Table of Contents and other automatic features that dramatically improve the end user experience.
Lightbox Html Help 1.x (CHM) is the Microsoft Windows compiled help file format. When building to CHM, the output is a single file that can be deployed to, and viewed on, any machine with Windows installed. The CHM viewer includes a Table of Contents, Index and Full Text Search.
Lightbox Microsoft Help Viewer is the help technology used by Visual Studio 2010-2015. Building Microsoft Help Viewer output and integrating your documentation with Microsoft Help Viewer ensures that help for the assemblies you document is only ever an F1 key press away to Visual Studio users.
Lightbox Your built documentation can be automatically published to a range of locations; a network path, ftp server, Azure web site or IIS (Internet Information Services) Server. Publishing recongizes which files have changed in the last build, so publishing is quick and minimizes network traffic.
Lightbox The generated output can be automatically integrated with a range of Community Providers (Facebook, Disqus, Livefyre or SolidOpinion) allowing you to include rich community features in your help systems.
The template based configuration that Document! X is based on makes it easy to:
The easy to use Example code designer included in the Content Editors makes adding multi-language examples a breeze. In-line or linked examples can be created and example code is automatically colorized in the generated output.
Document! X supports several different languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Russian) for the phrases used in the generated output. All of the phrases and terminology in the generated output can be configured according to preference.
Document! X allows you to author content for multiple languages within a single project, showing you an embedded tip for the primary locale content when you are authoring in the Content File Editor for a secondary locale. If you use the Document! X and HelpStudio bundle you can export and import your localized content in XLIFF format; the industry standard for sending and receiving translation content from translation providers.
