Sandcastle Tools

The topics in this section describe the underlying tools, components, and build engine. You can skip this section if you have no interest in how the underlying tools work. Otherwise, select a topic below to learn more about the various tools and components used to build the help files.

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Author Credits

The information and images in the General Information and Architecture topics were originally created by Dave Sexton as part of the wiki content for the Sandcastle Styles project that used to exist on CodePlex.

Some of the information in the Sandcastle tool topics was created by Anand Raman on the old Sandcastle blog. The information has been updated to reflect the current state of the tools and enhancements made to support new features.