使用SandCastle创建.Net帮助文档

Sandcastle是微软提供的一个根据XML注释和DLL文件生成帮助文件的工具，目前是在CodePlex上的一个开源项目，可以去这里下载：Sandcatle 项目
Sandcastle 本身是一个console的程序，为了方便使用，我们可以使用他的GUI版本：Sandcastle Help File Builder

第一步，为你写的代码添加XML注释

我们创建一个简单的ClassLibrary1项目最为示范：

using System;
 
using System.Collections.Generic;
 
using System.Text;
 
 
 
namespace ClassLibrary1
 
{
 
    /// <summary>
 
    /// A sample class to show something using Sandcastle
 
    /// </summary>
 
    public class SampleClass
 
    {
 
        private string _propertyValue;
 
 
 
        /// <summary>
 
        /// Gets or sets the property value.
 
        /// </summary>
 
        /// <value>The property value.</value>
 
        public string Property
 
        {
 
            get
 
            {
 
                return _propertyValue;
 
            }
 
            set
 
            {
 
                _propertyValue = value;
 
            }
 
        }
 
 
 
        /// <summary>
 
        /// Determines whether the property is null.
 
        /// </summary>
 
        /// <returns>
 
        ///     <c>true</c> if property is null; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
 
        /// </returns>
 
        public bool IsPropertyNull()
 
        {
 
            bool result = false;
 
 
 
            if (this.Property == null)
 
            {
 
                result = true;
 
            }
 
            return result;
 
        }
 
 
 
        /// <summary>
 
        /// Determines whether the property is null.
 
        /// </summary>
 
        /// <returns>
 
        ///     <c>true</c> if property is empty; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
 
        /// </returns>
 
        /// <example>
 
        /// This example shows how you might use this method:
 
        /// 
 
        /// <code>
 
        /// SampleClass sample = new SampleClass();
 
        /// 
 
        /// if (sample.IsPropertyEmpty())
 
        /// {
 
        ///        Console.WriteLine("The property is empty");
 
        /// }
 
        /// else
 
        /// {
 
        ///        Console.WriteLine("The property contains value " + sample.Property);
 
        /// }
 
        /// </code>
 
        /// </example>
 
        public bool IsPropertyEmpty()
 
        {
 
 
 
            bool result = this.IsPropertyNull();
 
 
 
            if (!result)
 
            {
 
                result = (Property.Trim().Length == 0);
 
            }
 
            return result;
 
        }
 
    }
 
}