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user758795
user758795

Reputation: 449

run Sandcastle in cmd

as part of our build process i would like to write a batch file that run the Sandcastle in one of our dll, i know how to do it by the gui, and i'm wondering if there is nay way todo it by commad line

thanks Tova

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3107

Answers (2)

plykkegaard
plykkegaard

Reputation: 115

Been a while and SFHB has moved from codeplex to github

For command line options please have a look in the Sandcastle Help File Builder Documentation, paragraph Building Projects Outside the GUI

You can use MSBuild.exe or dotnet.exe with the build command line options Check the documentation

Even with smaller projects I'd advice against to use the post build event as the XML documentation can grow fairly large and a take little while to complete

Upvotes: 0

ossek
ossek

Reputation: 1648

You might consider invoking sandcastle help file builder via MsBuild as a post build event, as discussed in this question: Build Sandcastle Documentation When Building Visual Studio Project. Sandcastle help file builder project files (.shfb) are actually valid msbuild files. You can generate shfb files with the Visual Studio integration or Sandcastle Help File Builder GUI as msorens mentions, and you can make a call like: msbuild My_SHFB_Project.shfbproj at the command line. You can find more at http://shfb.codeplex.com/

Upvotes: 3

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