What does MS used to generate how to articles
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Developers?
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Developers?
The dyslectic subtype...
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I know that Microsoft uses sandcastle to generate all their API docs from code, however, does anyone know what tool they use to generate all the other how to articles in MSDN?
I'm not sure if DocStudio is still the current tool. I think I've heard the MSDN guys saying there a new doc production tool. DocStudio was basically Word with a SQL database backend. The authoring doc contained lots of metatags for formatting and topic/keyword crosslinks. The build system would process the word doc, inserting data into the metatags and produce the formatted output document (CHM, HTML, HSX, etc). It was a pretty clumsy system for authoring but it scaled well for huge projects.
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I know that Microsoft uses sandcastle to generate all their API docs from code, however, does anyone know what tool they use to generate all the other how to articles in MSDN?
nde_plume wrote:
does anyone know what tool they use to generate all the other how to articles in MSDN?
the same old tired-@ss cobbled-together COM/Win32 cr@p code they've been shleppin since Windows 3.11.... :laugh: ;P
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
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I know that Microsoft uses sandcastle to generate all their API docs from code, however, does anyone know what tool they use to generate all the other how to articles in MSDN?
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I know that Microsoft uses sandcastle to generate all their API docs from code, however, does anyone know what tool they use to generate all the other how to articles in MSDN?
nde_plume wrote:
I know that Microsoft uses sandcastle
Great... now I have to change the name of my current development project... In about 50 years I guess you will start seeing application names like: 1fadsfdasf because all of the good names have been trademarked. :wtf: Best Wishes, -David Delaune
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nde_plume wrote:
does anyone know what tool they use to generate all the other how to articles in MSDN?
the same old tired-@ss cobbled-together COM/Win32 cr@p code they've been shleppin since Windows 3.11.... :laugh: ;P
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
sheesh tough crowd tonight Not that I was really expecting a guffaw but I would have settled for so much as a chortle or even knee slap... :laugh: Just for the record I keed Microsoft but my livelihood has for the most part been dependent on its software for the past 20 years, cobbled together as it may be.... .NET continues to prove itself to be the the most productive framework that I've worked with in all these years and C# just fits like a comfy glove as a language of choice. But it is always still nogastically humorous anytime you have to still have to DLLImport and extern into GetActiveWindow() and other Win32 API leftovers to get to some lower-level stuff! :)
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
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Henry Minute wrote:
Developers?
The dyslectic subtype...
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class Developer : Tool { ... }
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class Developer : Tool { ... }
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"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
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Developers?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
This is correct. Also Technical Writers and even a few Technical Editors who escaped the Great Purges.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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I know that Microsoft uses sandcastle to generate all their API docs from code, however, does anyone know what tool they use to generate all the other how to articles in MSDN?
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