VSdocman 3.0 Press Release

Contact: Peter Macej
Company: HELIXOFT
Title: Director
E-mail: peter@helixoft.com
Tel: +421 903 921794

Code Documentation as Fun Ride – VSdocman 3.0

VSdocman, an auto-documentation and commenting tool from HELIXOFT, lets developers concentrate on content development, rather than labor-intensive manual documenting. Version 3.0 has an added support for C# and 15 other major and minor improvements.

PRESOV, Slovakia – August 30, 2006: HELIXOFT has announced the immediate availability of VSdocman 3.0 (previously known as VBdocman .NET). VSdocman is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, which enables you to auto-generate documentation directly from your source code, be it VB .NET or C#. When set to work, VSdocman parses the source and generates customizable MSDN-like documentation with a table of contents, index, search, cross-references, IntelliSense and F1 context sensitive help straight from the class structure and comments it finds there. VSdocman has a support for XML and JavaDoc comments, a WYSIWYG comment editor with tables, lists, pictures and links. It will output the generated documents from a single source to any of these formats: HTML, HTML Help (CHM), Help 2 (HxS), RTF and XML. Unlike competitors, VSdocman easily deploys and integrates generated help into Visual Studio. It also supports command-line mode for automated builds.

What’s New in VSdocman 3.0?

VSdocman has been evolving over the past 3 years. It began as a source code documentation tool for Visual Basic .NET, steadily improved with each release and now comes with 16 improvements, among them is a full support for C# (hence the new name - VSdocman). The new version provides localized output in several languages, including English, German, French, Spanish and Slovak. Now, adding a new language is as simple as editing one text file. Another good thing is that all links can point to framework members. Now, members declaration is shown in VB .NET, C#, C++ and JScript, and types inside are shown as links. Other important improvements in 3.0 include an ability not to list member attributes in declaration syntax section and ability to display all superclasses (even those outside the project) in inheritance tree. Additionally, there is an improved HTML output for better cross-browser compatibility and enhanced processing speed. A more descriptive information on VSdocman 3.0 is available at www.helixoft.com/net/features.htm

VSdocman 3.0 runs under Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista and requires Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, 2005. Registration starts at $229 (USD) for a single-user license. Discounts for buyers of multiple licenses are available (please, refer to www.helixoft.com/buy.htm). Registered users are entitled to premium technical support and free upgrades to all future minor versions. Additional information on VSdocman, detailed documentation, as well as a free 14-day evaluation copy (no limitations) is available from www.helixoft.com/net.

Founded in 2000 by Peter Macej, Helixoft’s goal is produce flexible tools to enhance the development productivity. The company specializes in documentation software that automates documentation of VB 6, VB .NET, C# and ASP.NET code. In 2003, Helixoft released VBdocman .NET, which was adopted by many development teams worldwide and in 2005 won MSD2D People’s Choice award in the category “.NET Tools – Documentation”. Helixoft is based in Presov, Slovakia. For more information, please visit www.helixoft.com.

NOTE TO EDITORS: Please, let us know if you have questions or would like any additional information on VSdocman 3.0. Contact Peter Macej at peter@helixoft.com or call +421 903 921794 to get more information or request a free registration key for review purposes.