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Compatible with Windows 7

Document! X 2011 has passed the Microsoft Windows 7 Compatibility testing, ensuring that it is compatible with both 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows 7.

Document! X is also compatible with Windows XP and Vista (32bit and 64bit).

Customer Quote

Open quote Document! X has saved us a huge amount of time, effort and cost by automating the production of reference documentation for our Microsoft .NET components.

We are very impressed with the Document! X product and would not hesitate to recommend it to any .NET component developer or Close quote development team.

Dean Guida
President, Infragistics

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Document! X for Visual Studio Developers

Visual Studio Industry Partner Document! X fully supports documentation of .NET assemblies from compiled assemblies created in any .NET language, including VB.NET, C#, J# and C++/CLI. .NET Framework 1.0 - 4.0 and Silverlight are all supported.

Document! X integrates with Microsoft® Visual Studio® (2005, 2008 and 2010) to provide you with the tools you need to author and build documentation for your Visual Studio solutions.

View a demonstration movie of how Document! X integrates with Visual Studio

Documentation style and functionality

Templates are provided for the Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 documentation styles as well as a template for the new Visual Studio 2010 "Microsoft Help Viewer" output, so that users of the documentation you produce will be familiar with the structure, layout, style and functionality.

Generated documentation supports language filtering so that any language specific reference information such as syntax tables and examples will be filtered according to the chosen language(s). So if for example your users are programming in C#, they can choose to view shown the C# syntax definition and examples. The language filtering functionality implemented by Document! X is 'sticky', such that a language preference is preserved when navigating between pages.

F1 support is automatically generated, so your assembly documentation is only ever a keypress away for the developers using it.

Visual Comment Editor

The Document! X Visual Studio Visual Comment Editor provides a unique fully Visual Editor for your VB.NET, C# or C++/CLI source code comments. Integrated directly with the Visual Studio IDE, the Visual Comment Editor allows you to create and edit comments directly within an editable preview of the generated documentation.

Comments created with the Visual Editor are written back to your source code in standard XML format. If you prefer, you can of course create and edit source code comments manually.

Visual Studio Dynamic Help integration

When compiling to Microsoft Help 2.x format, Document! X automatically generates all the information necessary to fully support Visual Studio dynamic help integration (Visual Studio 2002 - 2008). This means that when using the .NET assembly you have documented, you will see entries in the Dynamic Help window and will have instant F1 access to the appropriate documentation topic whilst you are coding.

Document! X can also automatically 'Plug-In' the generated Microsoft Help 2.x file to the Visual Studio help collection on the local machine so that the generated Table of Contents and Index are merged into the Visual Studio help collection (this option is set on the 'Help Compiler Options' page of the Document! X Project Editor). Document! X also ships with a command line tool to assist in registering Microsoft Help 2.x files on other machines, and generates .bat files for registration and un-registration automatically.

XML Comment file generation

If your assembly is written in a .NET language that does not generate an XML documentation file during compile, you will find that when using the assembly in Visual Studio Intellisense does not display a description. Document! X solves this problem by optionally generating an XML Comment file as part of the documentation build process - this enables descriptions in both Intellisense and the Object Browser.

Object model diagrams

Document! X automatically generates object relationship diagrams for your classes. Specific relationships can be ignored where necessary (e.g. a relationship back to a parent object). Collection objects automatically recognized and appropriately represented.

Customization

The template based configuration that Document! X is based on makes it easy to:

Create new comment types for use in source code comments;
Adapt existing templates to match your existing corporate style and color scheme;
Customize Table of Contents definitions according to your requirements;
Fine tune the standard phrases and terminology used by Document! X to match your standards.

Authoring examples

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.

Localization

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.

Note that 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.