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Sandcastle Help File Builder

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A GUI for creating projects to build help files with Sandcastle and a console mode tool to build them as well.
* Sandcastle Help File Builder and Custom Build Components *

The code for this project may be used in compiled form in any way you
desire. The unmodified code may be redistributed by any means PROVIDING it
is not sold for profit without the author's written consent, and providing
that this notice and the author's name and all copyright notices remain
intact.

All code and executables are provided "as is" with no warranty either
express or implied. The author accepts no liability for any damage or loss
of business that this product may cause.

* Custom Build Components Assembly *

The custom build components assembly and related files
(SandcastleBuilder.Components.dll, ColorizerLibrary.dll, and related
configuration files) may be redistributed with your own build scripts and
build tools by any means PROVIDING that they are not sold for profit
without the author's written consent, and providing that this notice and
the author names and all copyright notices remain intact. The code
colorizer library is copyright (c) 2003, Jonathan de Halleux,  All rights
reserved.  All other code is copyright (c) 2006-2007, Eric Woodruff, All
rights reserved.

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Eric Woodruff is an Analyst/Programmer for Spokane County, Washington where he helps develop and support various applications, mainly criminal justice systems, using Windows Forms (C#) and SQL Server as well as some ASP.NET applications.

He is also the author of various open source projects for .NET including:

The Sandcastle Help File Builder - A front end and project management system that lets you build help file projects using Microsoft's Sandcastle documentation tools. It includes a standalone GUI and a package for Visual Studio integration.

Visual Studio Spell Checker - A Visual Studio editor extension that checks the spelling of comments, strings, and plain text as you type or interactively with a tool window. This can be installed via the Visual Studio Gallery.

Image Map Controls - Windows Forms and web server controls that implement image maps.

PDI Library - A complete set of classes that let you have access to all objects, properties, parameter types, and data types as defined by the vCard (RFC 2426), vCalendar, and iCalendar (RFC 2445) specifications. A recurrence engine is also provided that allows you to easily and reliably calculate occurrence dates and times for even the most complex recurrence patterns.

Windows Forms List Controls - A set of extended .NET Windows Forms list controls. The controls include an auto-complete combo box, a multi-column combo box, a user control dropdown combo box, a radio button list, a check box list, a data navigator control, and a data list control (similar in nature to a continuous details section in Microsoft Access or the DataRepeater from VB6).

For more information see http://www.EWoodruff.us

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