A change that happened rather early in the development process of SharpDevelop 3.0
(revision 2658, 8/13/2007) was that we replaced NDoc (a stalled open source project)
with Sandcastle Help File Builder (SHFB).
SHFB looks and feels similar to NDoc, however, it builds on top of Sandcastle,
a documentation generation tool by Microsoft.
Our build server (revision
2913 and higher) contains SHFB
1.6.0.4, which itself builds on top of the January
2008 release of Sandcastle (both are at the moment the latest releases of their
respective projects). SharpDevelop 3.0 setup ships with SHFB, however, Sandcastle
itself does not and must be installed separately! (this might change in the
future once the final license of Sandcastle is known)
Because of the regular releases of Sandcastle and SHFB, the distribution of SharpDevelop
3.0 might ship with older versions of SHFB than currently available for download.
Thanks to Eric Woodruff, the maintainer of SHFB, this is not a big deal - he is offering
a download specific for SharpDevelop:
All you have to do is first delete the contents of the following installation directory
(including subdirectories):
Then simply unzip the SHFB distribution archive into this folder and presto - you
are now using the latest version of SHFB from inside SharpDevelop!
Read the complete post at http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/NDocReplacedWithSandcastleHelpFileBuilderSHFB.aspx