Is there any other good free/open-source tool for documentating besides Microsoft's Sandcastle and NDoc, that is easy to use, has a GUI and generates HTML documentation?
View 4 RepliesI am trying to use the <code> tag inside the <example> tag to show a sample code in xml documentation. However, when I build the Sandcastle project, I see that it is shown as C#. There is no language attribute in <code> tag. And I could not find a setting in Sandcastle's project properties.
View 1 RepliesI'd like to be able to exclude members that, although Public, are decorated with EditorBrowable.Never.I can't see any where to do it in the options. Is there a plug-in out there where you can specify attributes to exclude?
ETA: Looks like I may have found it - the <exclude /> Tag. I'm just testing it now....
ETA2: Yes it works.
I want to create a windows installer package using visual studio. It is my understanding that there was a simple way to do this in vb6, you could add an installer like you can add a new form.
How can I do this in vb.net? I downloaded and installed the Windows SDK from [url]... because it said somewhere that it could create installer packages and had tools to do so for .net
i would like to display a pdf on my winform and am thinking of using of those tools in my vb.net application. does anyone know the difference between the two?
View 1 RepliesBasically I've coded an Excel 2007 project in VB.NET 2010 that allows you to create charts with a fair amount of interactivity. I want the user to be able to save and reopen this workbook and still have that interactivity in any already-created charts, so they don't have to re-create them.
When I create the charts, I use Sheet1.Controls.AddChart(...), which returns a Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Chart with which I can handle events and such. However, when I reopen the file and look through the Sheet1.Controls collection, there are no Chart objects. Accessing the charts through Sheet1.ChartObjects.Chart gives me Interop Charts, when I need the Tools Charts.
is there a section on how to add controls, Ie like in fire fox Tools/Options
View 1 RepliesI have been writing VBA code for MS Access for years, but am starting my first project that will need to retrieve data from the Internet. I have come across code samples that use "Microsoft Internet Controls" and "Microsoft HTML Object Library", and I can make them available references in VBA, and available methods and fields etc. show when writing code, but I cannot find any documentation for these APIs. Does it come with MS Office on the CDs (if so, where?), or is it available over the Internet somewhere?
View 2 RepliesI've been using sandcastle builder to make my help file documentation for our code base. It works real good just out of the box, but I need to customize it a little.How do you you format remarks? In the xml comments in code, you can have tabs and carriage returns and such to make things look readable, but all that get's taken out by Sandcastle and it gets converted to one long paragraph.For instance:
''' <remarks>An example of how to use this function would be:
'''
''' Using Selector As ObjectSelectors.FacilitySelector = [code]......
Would end up looking like:An example of how to use this function would be: Using Selector As ObjectSelectors.FacilitySelector = ObjectSelectors.FacilitySelectorUtils.GetStandardFacilitySelector(Me.m_Project, Me.m_Map) Selector.Text = MessageCaption If Selector.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then 'add these facilities to the list For Each FacilityRow As Data.DataRow In Selector.SelectedItems If Not Me.BarricadingFacilityTable.Rows.Contains(FacilityRow(0)) Then Me.BarricadingFacilityTable.ImportRow(FacilityRow) End If Next End If End Using
I know there must be some kind of tag I can use - or would it be a bunch of tags? Or is there a setting in Sandcastle Builder?
I'm currently doing a project that includes access 2010 My question will be what driver can I use for an access 2010 *.accdb type file? For a *.mdb it works perfectly well with
ConnString ="Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};Dbq=" & Application.StartupPath & "\CITSDB.mdb;Uid=Admin;Pwd=123;"
But, when I changed the mbd to accdb:
ConnString ="Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.accdb)};Dbq=" & Application.StartupPath & "\CITSDB.accdb;Uid=Admin;Pwd=123;"
It resulted in errors:
ERROR[HY000][Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]Could not find file '(unknown)'.
ERROR[IM006][Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager]SQLSetConnetAttr failed
ERROR[HY000][Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]Could not find file '(unknown)'
And then it shows me that my code for
If dsLogin.Tables(0).Rows.Count = 1 Then
IndexOutOfRangeException was unhandled
Cannot find table 0
I knew it must be the driver but I don't know what accdb driver I can use for the connstring.
I have a database with one table.I'd like to populate an array with the values in the table so that I can work with the data.How do I copy the data from the table to the array?I am able to view the data with a DataGridView but can't find any info on extracting the data to an array or variable.
View 2 RepliesI have an error ERROR [22018] [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Data type mismatch in criteria expression. and I've been trying to solve this but unfortunately I couldn't get the hack of this error. I'm a newbie in dotNet.
Public Sub LogInContinue(ByVal senter As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
Dim LibDS As DataSet = New DataSet
Dim LibDA As OdbcDataAdapter = New OdbcDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM tblUserAccount WHERE Uname='" & txtUserName.Text & "'", LibConn)
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I am building a VB 2008 Express Edition application.I have built a database (with a single table) using SQL Server Compact 3.5 and have connected it to the project. I am able to view and edit the data using a DataGridView on a second form (tutorial made this very easy). I need to work with the data in the table within the application. how to easily load the entire table into an array or even read the table a row or cell at a time so that I can make all of the data available for manipulation within the application (the tutorials only seem to show how to display the data).
View 7 RepliesI am developing a database system using Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. Honestly i don't have any knowledge on how to connect the data in VB to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, so kindly anyone could support me with tutorial videos or ebook or any reference
View 4 Replieswhere can i find some good documentation or training on how to use WMI?
View 3 RepliesI am trying to use xml documentation tool in my application. one of my methods receives 'ParamArray' as an argument. i want to document this argument elements.
here is my code
Public Sub LoadSearch_ByEmployee(ByVal EmployeeID As Integer _
, ByVal FromDate As Date _
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I have written up troubleshooting documents for my project and would like them included in my program. I remember in VB6 there was a very easy way to do this with a control, where it already has the help document tree set up on the left and you just set it to point to certain files.
Does something like this exist for .NET? I am aware of the HelpProvider control but as far as I know this just puts in tooltips and opens documents on a button press?
The regularity and frequency of that extolling is an indication of how many people, for whatever reason, don't use the documentation. Some say that I've forgotten what it's like to be a beginner, but I remember using the MSDN documentation as a beginner. I remember that I couldn't always find what I needed and I also remember that I didn't always understand what I found. More importantly, I remember that that didn't stop me using it first every time I had an issue and I also remember getting better at using it over time. So, I'm genuinely interested to know, if you don't use the MSDN documentation?
View 39 RepliesI want to know the professional way to comments VB.net project coding. In future, it may help to other people, whom may update my project.
View 4 RepliesHere's an example of a wasted day:
(1) I want to find out exactly what Binding.FormattingEnabled does.
(2) I type MSDN Binding.FormattingEnabled into google and go to the page.
(3) I read the 3, 'helpful', line description.
(4) I check out the bottom of the page for references.
(5) Never mind, non of those helped....
(6) I search google and find nobody seems to know what the property does in its entirety.
(7) I open up reflector and spend hours in a tangled web before being 70% sure I know what's going on.
(8) I carry on coding, but the 30% is niggling at me.
(9) Repeat 6 - 8 ad nauseum ...
There must be a better way!
I'm using VS.Net 2008 Express edition, btw.
ETA: The FormattingEnabled property was just an example, this is more of a general question. Using reflector, I'm about 94.314% sure of how it works..
I am simply searching how to obtain errors/warning for each function/member that isnt documented. Im pretty sure I managed to do this on one of my projects, but cant find how to do it here on my workstation. I have looked into the project props, the solution props, but cant find it. I must have missed something, or maybe I could do this at home with an extension.
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I was wondering what options i have in order for me to create documentation for the applications i write? i.e. Some documentation for code written and some general comments on what the application is doing etc?
After a quick search i noticed a few options but most seem to be using VS 2003 (prefer something for 2010)
I am using something similar to this and it will not display the Summary or Remarks when I am attempting to use the Intellisense for this function?
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When i perform unit testing on routines, using the unit testing framwork provided by VSTS, i need to get a output of the unit test and result on to a document (documentation). how do i do i do this?
View 1 RepliesOne of the Projects in my VB.NET Solution seemed unwilling to let me write XML Documentation in my code. When tapping ''' on the line directly above a method declaration, nothing would happen. The project consisted of modules and classes only(no forms), so I initially thought that had something to do with it.
Later I found that under project properties and the Compile tab, the "Generate XML documentation file" checkbox was left unchecked. Checking this instantly allowed me to place the comments normally. After doing some testing, I also found that Creating an Empty project leaves the checkbox unchecked, while creating a Windows Application automatically checks it.
how to call or reference an item from an xml document. I hava a java app that i'm converting over to vb.net. The java application uses the digester class to to parse the information. The app uses 2 classes and the xml file. one class is the Vb.net Parameter class (fully converted from Java to vb.net) that pulls the information out of the xml document and then places it when called into the 2nd class file.
I'm pretty sure that i need to use the system.xml class to do this however i'm having or just not reading the examples properly.
I have partially converted the code over to vb.net, it still has some java references.
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I have been searching for the ability to utilize the three apostrophe means for auto-documentation ( ''' ) outlining but just can't find the IDE setting for such.
View 3 RepliesI am trying to add structure (line breaks, paragraphs and code) to the Remarks Tag of XML documentation in VB2005. I have tried many examples from "Recommended XML Tags for Documentation Comments (Visual Basic)" [URL], but all of the examples seem to compile to one continuous line when viewed in the VS2005 Object browser.
Below is an Example:
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Website, Documentation but do not know how to access it. [URL] [URL]
View 1 RepliesI simply want to find documentation about invoke and begininvoke. A member of delegates. simply searching on it on bing and stuff don't show anything. It shows control.invoke, etc.In the delegate msdn entry there is no invoke member. At least not when I look for system.action or system.func.Where can I found begininvoke documentation? what will happen if I put nothing as callback function for example? Intuitively the program simply don't call any call back function but hei, I want to makes ure of it.
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