Links to Resources
This topics contains links to various resources that you may find useful.
Information and Guides
The most recent version of this help file and other guides on MAML and XML comments can be download from the Sandcastle Help File Builder project on GitHub (currently the v2024.9.12.0 release as of September 14, 2024).
Discussion Groups, Blogs, Etc.
To discuss the help file builder and tools, suggest new features, report bugs in them, and request help using them, visit the Sandcastle Help File Builder project site.
For discussion and questions about help systems in general, visit the Visual Studio General Questions forum.
The retired Microsoft Developer Documentation and Help System forum may also provide information on older help systems.
Additional Tools
If you need a spell checker for Visual Studio, the Visual Studio Spell Checker extension can be downloaded and installed from the Visual Studio Gallery. It is an editor extension that checks the spelling of comments, strings, and plain text as you type or interactively with a tool window. Support is included for spell checking source code, XML files, and MAML topic files. Versions are available for Versions are available for Visual Studio 2013 and 2015, Visual Studio 2017 and 2019 and Visual Studio 2022 and Later.
For extended XML comments completion support in Visual Studio 2019 and later, install the Extended XML Documentation Comments Completion Provider extension which can be downloaded and installed from the Visual Studio Gallery. Versions are available for Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2022 and later.
The HTML Help Workshop used to build HTML Help 1.x (.CHM) help files appears to have been discontinued and cannot be downloaded from the Microsoft site. If you need a copy to install, it can be downloaded from the Sandcastle Help File Builder project website