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.NET documentation generator alternatives to Sandcastle?
After searching and trying for a while, I found a perfect alternative to it.
DocFX
Main Features:
Website from Source Code
DocFX generates API documentation directly from .NET source code. You can ...
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A robust and flexible alternative to doxygen supporting C++
Personally I would strongly recommend taking a look at Sphinx-Doc which was written for the Python documentation but is applicable to other systems as well.
Produces great looking documents with ...
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What tool can generate HTML documentation from C# code, like Javadoc can do for Java?
Putting in my 2c because I was following the accepted answer, but it turns out,
Microsoft C# compiler is only doing a half-baked job. I.e., it only gives you an xml file. But to have a nice website, ...
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A robust and flexible alternative to doxygen supporting C++
(I've salvaged several answers from the now-deleted StackOverflow question page:)
Doc++
You could try DOC++ but it may be even uglier.
cldoc
There is an open source alternative to doxygen out there ...
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From README.md at github to something better?
You, sir, are looking for GitHub Wikis.
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Online PHP documentation tool
I would highly recommend http://phpfui.com for this. Runs as a PHP script right on your server. Will produce static files if you need them for high volume sites. Easy to install and set up. Maybe 2 ...
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Which platforms to use for writing documentation/help/manual?
Personally I can strongly recommend Sphinx Document Generator:
Free, Gratis & Open Source
Cross platform
One set of base files, in ReStructuredText format which are easily version controllable.
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.NET documentation generator alternatives to Sandcastle?
Sandcastle Help File Builder supports .NET Core projects as of the v2017.5.15.0 release.
Release notes for version
2017.5.15.0
...
A new cross-platform reflection data set file (...
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Helpdesk, community, knowledgebase, documentation
Give our app a try - Jitbit Helpdesk.
We support various SSO methods - from Google Login to custom SAML providers (Azure AD for example)
Email-based is our primary focus.
We have a feature called ...
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Swagger User Interface without JSON/YAML
I got the answer for this myself from https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/IMPLEMENTATIONS.md
Few implementations like:
1) Apicurio Studio - https://github.com/Apicurio/apicurio-...
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Generate Certificate (award)
Syncfusion Essential PDF Viewer for ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVC is an option to consider. This will allow you to display the generated PDF in a consistent manner irrespective of the PDF Viewer the user has.
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Which platforms to use for writing documentation/help/manual?
Lately I've been seeing Read the Docs being used in a lot of (OS) projects. As far as I can tell it's mainly aimed at code documentation, not sure if that fits your need.
Read the Docs hosts ...
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Which platforms to use for writing documentation/help/manual?
Libre Offfice's "writer" will let you generate both to HTML and PDF.
When the time comes, you can easily make your documents ready for the
Web via Writer's HTML export feature, or you can ...
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Report generating tool for Microsoft Word (team-based)
Have you considered Google Docs? Granted, you (and all your colleagues/collaborators would) would need a Google account but for what it's worth, I find it quite powerful. And, if I understand your ...
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Software wiki framework that jupyter's doc uses?
At the bottom of the page you will find the words:
Built with Sphinx using a theme provided by Read the Docs.
Sphinx is a python based document generation tool and personally I find it absolutely ...
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Tool to generate angular documentation searchable via tags
You could easily use ngDocs or JSDoc. In that way you will be able to generate a documentation e.g. with jsdoc helper. For tagging you can use JSDoc @alias or just @name for example.
Once you ...
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Tool to document web API
I'd recommend either doxygen or javadoc. Javadoc is probably easier to setup, and may already be integrated with your IDE.
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Headless CMS for collaborative working on user manual
For technical documentation with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki, recommend these extensions:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cargo
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:...
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Headless CMS for collaborative working on user manual
How about Atlassian Confluence? (Disclaimer: Not an expert on Q&A nor on the domain. I've answered based on what I could make out of the question. Please explore further. @Experts, please feel ...
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Moving doxygen comments from source to header
In case just the documentation is to be delivered it can be sufficient to set the configuration setting: SOURCE_BROWSER=NO in the Doxyfile.
It might also be necessary to check other settings as well ...
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C++ or C# module documentation tool for both API reference and online book
Sphinx-Doc is a python tool for generating documentation from ReStructuredText files & python source but can be used with Breathe to interact with DoxyGen for processing C/C++ files.
The output ...
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App to draw bit/byte based messages from plain text description
If you accept pseudo-graphic lines in text, then CudaText is a solution. It has plugin Draw Lines (install from Plugins/ Addon Manager) to draw such lines/frames in plain text. Here is example of ...
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Math writing tablet apps instead of LaTeX
I'd pick up markdown. It's a much easier formatting language and LaTeX can be generated from it, e.g. with pandoc.
I am using Emacs as a markdown and LaTeX editor (with AucTeX), but agree that it's ...
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Is there any tooling to document PLC code per IEC 61131 (formerly IEC 1131)?
I'm not sure if this is what you need because I don't know plc much. But you could have a look at PLC Software Control FPWIN Pro. Using FPWIN you could print variables, comments etc.. The download ...
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Is Google's Developer Documentation tooling public?
Google's documentation magic sauce doesn't seem to be publicly available from a single source.
Not all of Google's open source projects have equally open-source documentation. E.g. protobuf's ...
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Tool for software documentation purpose
I would strongly suggest taking a look at the Sphinx document generator tool chain.
The document creation is performed as a set of ReStructuredText files, (with the possible inclusion of some other ...
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.NET documentation generator alternatives to Sandcastle?
There are two Sandcastle projects, the original Sandcastle from Microsoft which is no longer under active development, and the...
Sandcastle Help File Builder
...which is actively maintained. In ...
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Looking for tools to write components documentation with source and runtime example like angular
I good bet for this sort of thing is Jupyter notebooks - in it you can mix documentation, in markdown, formulae, in MathJax, code, in a number of languages, always including Python but a number of ...
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Restful Web Services api documentation tool
Have you tried apidocjs ?
Documenting APIs
Well, it quite easy, because what we need to do is just commenting on our code. This is an example.
/**
* @api {get} /user/:id Request User information
*...
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How to document (describe in HTML) Oracle schema?
SchemaCrawler is a free, open-source database discovery tool that you can do what you need.
HTML format - SchemaCrawler generates HTML 5 output.
ER diagram in output - SchemaCrawler generates ER ...
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