Automate build comment web pages

[SBGibson]

Hi guys,
there's a way, via command line or something else, to automatically launch the creation of web bages based on the c# xml comments in order to update the documentation during a nightly build?
Thanks in advance.

Stevie B. Gibson

 

[chiph]

NAnt with NDoc has the ability to do this. You would use NAnt to do your nightly builds, and in your Nant script you would call NDoc, which reads your xml comments and produces either a HTML Help file (*.chm), HTML Help 2 (like used by Visual Studio), or MSDN-Online style HTML info.

Learn more at

http://nant.sourceforge.net/

http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/

A good book (despite it being for Java) is:
Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps
ISBN: 0974514039

While the Java crowd uses Ant to automate their tasks, the scripts used by NAnt are very similar (no surprise, considering that NAnt is a derivative of Ant), so you'll be able to get some good ideas from it.

Chip H.


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