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COM Documentation Made Easy

Document! X is a combination of an automated COM (ActiveX) Documentation Tool and a full documentation authoring environment which can be used to create and maintain accurate, professional quality documentation for COM Components and Type Libraries.

Document! X is not just an automated documentation build tool - it is also includes a fully featured documentation authoring environment allowing you to author supplementary content (descriptions of web service resources and operations, hyperlinks to related pages or web sites etc.) where required. Leverage your existing COM HelpStrings where available and create additional content in a rich and easy to use WYSIWYG authoring environment.

Document! X is the trusted COM Component / Type Library documentation solution chosen by individuals and organizations worldwide for over 20 years

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Why Use Document! X?

Fast, accurate, professional quality COM Component / Type Library documentation;
Market leading authoring tools for creating supplementary content;
Documentation pages generated for class, interface, structure, enumeration, method, property, field, event;
Automatically integrates the generated documentation with F1 Help;
Customizable HTML based template driven output can be adapted to your requirements and ships with standard phrases pre-translated to 9 different languages;
Generate documentation to HTML Help 1.x (CHM) or web ready pure HTML including a full Table of Contents, Index and Full Text Search.

Demonstration Movies

These short movies provide a great way to discover what can be achieved using Document! X.

Documenting a COM Component

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).

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Publishing to a web site, ftp server or network location

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)

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Automatic optimization for Tablet and Mobile devices

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)

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Using Build Profiles to create multiple outputs

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)

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Content Authoring Options

You can choose to author content in your COM Component / Type Library Source Code (using HelpStrings) 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.

Content File Editor

In combination with, or as an alternative to authoring content in COM HelpStrings, create and maintain documentation content using the Document! X Content File Editor.

Show Source Descriptions

Whilst you are authoring in the Content File Editor, any descriptions automatically obtained from COM HelpStrings are shown (the gray boxes above the editable areas in the screenshot). This makes it quick and easy to spot content that needs extending or overriding.

Object Model Digrams

The generated documentation for classes and structures 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 COM Component.

Single Source Build and Publish

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.

Browser Help

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.

Tablet and Mobile Support

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.

Html Help 1.x (CHM)

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.

Publish to network path, ftp, Azure and IIS

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.

Community Features

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.

Sample Outputs

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.

Class Overview Page

Overview of the class, including an automatically generated Object Relationship Diagram.

Members Page

Type members page, listing the methods, properties and events implemented by this type.

Method Page

Page for a method, including a Syntax section and parameters list.

Property Page

Page for a property, including a Syntax section and return type information.

Enumeration Page

Enumeration overview page, listing the enumeration members.

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Document Everything

Document! X doesn't just document COM Components and Type Libraries, it supports a wide variety of solution elements. One consistent and comprehensive toolset for all of your technical documentation requirements.