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Closed 11 years ago.
I'm looking for a program that provides me a functionality to build help documentation that can be viewed in a browser.
It should be lookin like a standard help, mean: topics, sub categories etc. Which can include
graphics, can format text etc.
I found a few nice looking, but they cost like houndreds of dollars.
Also found freeware, but that program wasn't what im looking for.
Any suggestions guys (girls)?
EDIT:
This is not a duplicate. I didnt precise, but i dont want to make documentation from source code.
Forget about source code.
My documentation can be about frogs, butterflies or something else. I added tag c# because there is no tag "documentation". (and colorlire c# code would be useful).
I just need progrma like this:
http://www.softany.com/winchm/screenshots.htm
But i need something really good, with alot of features.
:S (I promise my english will be better asfet post 1000 questions^^)
Assuming that you mean building help files from XMLDoc comments in code files, SandCastle will do this
Sandcastle is great, but is complex and hard to work with.
Sandcastle HelpFile Builder makes it a lot easier. You can style the generated HTML files or use one of the existing templates.
I have successfully used NDOC 3 in the past.
Don't forget MAML for portability and standardization (plus it works well with Sandcastle).
What is the recommended help file format to use in a modern Windows app?
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Closed 9 years ago.
well the title pretty much explains the core of my question.
I have been unable to locate a tutorial/Tutorials for C# and C++ (I would like to find one for C# but C++ would be appreciated as well)
that encourage you to not use an IDE of any type, tutorials that make you learn EVERYTHING the old/hard way.
Im wanting to find tutorials that teach you to use only notepad or something similar, I dont want to depend on drag n drop and i feel like i will be learning so much more on how things work. So with that said does anyone know of such tutorials/books/websites?
I appreciate any assistance on this, Everyone have a great day
Instead of looking for tutorials that explain how to do things without IDE's, you should look for tutorials that explain how to compile from the command line. You can then use notepad (or emacs or VIM or w/e text editor you want) and follow along with the "IDE tutorials." But I agree with most people here, you might as well use an IDE. Most of them don't "hide" things from you that you need to concern yourself with anyways.
Why losing time when today, after years, we have some good IDEs that help us to speed up our dead times?
Anyway if you are going to learn a new programmation language,you must know how it works,indipendently on how ("old style") you reach the result.
Start looking for tutorials that explain how to compile from the command line.
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I am making a program in C# with a lot of IO operations.
Some of that operations are copying directories.
I was really stunned when I figured out that you don't have something like Directory.copy(SourceDir, DestinationDir) in C#.
I googled a little bit around and at msdn they give a code sample to copy directories.
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762914.aspx).
But when you search a little bit further, there is a Directory.Copy method in the Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO namespace.
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms127957.aspx)
I could refere to this namespace and use this method, but there must be a reason why Microsoft does not support this in C# and why they aren't mentioning it on msdn.
Hope somebody can tell me the reason.
I can write extensionmethod to solve this problem & I can solve it pretty easy, but my question is Why? Why is there no such method in C#, I just want to know :-)
Because it's easy enough to do a foreach on a DirectoryInfo.GetFiles(), while also giving you an opportunity to filter the list of files being copied, or do some other operation besides copying.
If it really bothers you, write an extension method for the DirectoryInfo class, or a FileInfo[] collection.
My guess is that VB is oriented more on beginners and things like Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO were intended to attract them to .NET world.
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Anyone here knows how to generate PDF using ASP? My system is about car rental online. When user choose car,date and services offered, there will be a 'CONFIRM' button which it will generate PDFs after user click it. I don't ask for you to write me the code, I just need you to provide with some helps,tips and reference as I am not familiar with this. Looking forward to hear from you. Have a good ones. Cheers.
You can use ITextsharp from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/ it will help u to generate pdf.
And this tutorial will help u
http://www.mikesdotnetting.com/Article/80/Create-PDFs-in-ASP.NET-getting-started-with-iTextSharp
This is a list of free libraries that help you implement PDF generation in any type of aplication (including ASP) .
A bit of reading is required, but in the end its your choice wich one you are going to use:
http://csharp-source.net/open-source/pdf-libraries
From personal experience I can recomment ABCPdf.Net (paid) and iTextSharp (free)
Use EVO PDF
http://www.evopdf.com/
Or
Use Winnovative
http://www.winnovative-software.com
Use following to generate PDF it works with multilingual with great easy.. It is the best free dll i have used so far
WKhtmltopdf convert html file to pdf
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As proposed by Brandon Walkin (for Xcode, but same thing), more visualization in the IDE can help productivity. In particular, I'd like to provide little icons to better convey the meaning of enum choices or classes (such as UI controls), roughly like this:
The built-in XML comment syntax clearly doesn't support this, but maybe someone has written an add-in to add support for, say, a <img> tag?
Man I love the Visual Studio Gallery for all the good things it contains.
Never seen anything like what you suggest there, but have seen plugin's for adding that kind of content to comments tho. This is one that I can find in there now (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/e216ec81-730b-4022-8305-25c39eb1f820), but I distinctly remember that there used to be one that allowed you to link to an image file (an export from say visio or it's ilk), and it would display it inline. I can't find it now tho :-(
You might want to look at this one, which is close, but not quite on the money http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c3eaa4fc-f2de-43ad-92ee-f0f257b79005. The source code is available here: http://csharpintellisense.codeplex.com/
And I'd actually like to thank you for drawing my attention back to that fabulous repository of goodness.
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Is there a feature equivalent to C#'s regions for being able to group code into named blocks and collapse and expand them?
Alternatively, are there any workarounds or third party tools available to achieve the same result?
One possible workaround might be using F# Outlining VS Extension that provides //#region outlining functionality. I use it with VS2010 for couple of months without any problems and find it very convenient:
[-]//#region Region Name
--lines of F# code--
--lines of F# code--
--lines of F# code--
//#endregion
with one click collapses to
[+]Region Name
and back.
I found times ago (out of mine curiosity) the link the was searching on for asking this question.
If you look at Regions and navigation bar for F# in Visual Studio the guy seems implemented an experimental feature. Post of firsts of 2012, so it's pretty fresh stuff.
Should say that I didn't try it till now.
Good luck.