Top 15 Sandcastle Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. Sandcastle has the following key features:

* Works with or without authored comments
* Supports Generics and .NET

1. ForgeDoc

ForgeDoc ForgeDoc is a class library documentation generator for .NET assemblies. It can create MSDN-style API reference documentations in HTML and CHM output formats. It completely supports the latest .NET Framework with proper syntax generation for C#, VB.NET and C++ languages.......

2. NDoc

NDoc NDoc generates class library documentation from .NET assemblies and the XML documentation files generated by the C# compiler (or with an add-on tool for VB.NET).NDoc uses pluggable documenters to generate documentation in several different formats, including the MSDN-style HTML Help format (.chm), the Visual Studio .NET Help format (HTML Help......

3. DocBlox

DocBlox DocBlox is a Documentation Generation Application (DGA) for use with PHP applications.It is capable of transforming the comments in your source code into a full API reference document.DocBlox is build to be PHP 5.3 compatible, fast, having a low memory consumption and easily integratable into Continuous Integration.......

4. CppDoc

CppDoc CppDoc generates HTML documentation for C++ classes, based on your source code and special comments embedded within it. It can produce output that is very similar to the output of Javadoc, and it supports Javadoc tags such as @see, @return , etc. The documentation comments are optional; if you leave......

5. Codex

Codex Features: * Laravel 4.2* Github-flavored Markdown* Host an unlimited number of manuals with accompanying versions* Code highlighting* Easy TOC / navigation system* SEO friendly URLs* Simple search* Supports Google Analytics* Supplied theme built on Bootstrap* Automatic header anchors......

6. EQATEC Profiler

EQATEC Profiler Are you a .NET developer? Would you like your application to run faster? Then use our free profiler to spot you apps slow code.Point and goNo source code changes are needed. Just point the profiler to your app, run the modified code, and get a visual report.Speedup any .NET appAs......

7. Document! X

Document! X Document! X is a combination of an automated documentation tool and a full authoring environment which can be used to create, publish and maintain accurate, professional quality documentation for .NET, Web Services, Databases, XSD Schemas, COM Components and Type Libraries, Java and Javascript.Document! X is not just an automated documentation......

8. Doclets.io

Doclets.io Doclets.io is the missing hosted and automated API-Doc generation service for Javascript. By simplifying API-Doc setup it enables you to actually focus on writing documentation! Doclets.io automatically creates API-Doc for every tag and selected branches, supporting JSDoc comments and Markdown articles.Setup your repo in 3 minutes!......

9. NLog

NLog NLog is a free logging platform for .NET with rich log routing and management capabilities. It makes it easy to produce and manage high-quality logs for your application regardless of its size or complexity.It can process diagnostic messages emitted from any .NET language, augment them with contextual information, format them......

10. MetalScroll For Visual Studio

MetalScroll For Visual Studio MetalScroll is an alternative for RockScroll, a Visual Studio add-in which replaces the editor scrollbar with a graphic representation of the code. Compared to the original, this version has a number of improvements:......

11. Eazfuscator.NET

Eazfuscator.NET Eazfuscator.NET is a commercial obfuscator for .NET platform. The main purpose of obfuscator is to protect intellectual property of the software. Key features Easy to use as 1-2-3 Automatic code protection with variety of supported obfuscation techniques: Symbol renaming String encryption Constant literals pruning Method signatures overload induction Class......

12. Linqer

Linqer Linqer is a SQL to LINQ converter tool. It will help you to learn LINQ and convert your existing SQL statements. Not every SQL statement can be converted to LINQ, but Linqer covers many different types of SQL expressions. Linqer supports both .NET languages C# and Visual Basic. Because LINQ......

13. GhostDoc

GhostDoc Supported platforms: Visual Studio 2015 incl. Community Edition Visual Studio 2013 Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio 2010 Visual Studio 2008 Supported Languages: C#, Visual Basic, C#, C++/CLI, JavaScriptComment stub creation/update works also for C++GhostDoc is a Visual Studio extension that automatically generates XML documentation comments for methods and properties based......

14. EasyHook

EasyHook EasyHook makes it possible to extend (via hooking) unmanaged code APIs with pure managed functions, from within a fully managed environment on 32- or 64-bit Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista x64, Windows Server 2008 x64, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.EasyHook supports injecting assemblies built for .NET Framework 3.5......

15. sharpDox

sharpDox sharpDox is a documentation tool to create c# code documentation of any type. The tool creates a model of a given c# solution and passes it to the registered export plugins. The plugins transform the model to a defined output. sharpDox comes with a chm & html export plugin which......