Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. August 2006 Sandcastle CTP is available for download.

Here is a summary of what’s new in this CTP version:

This is a simple plugin for Windows Live Writer that enables a user to insert highlighted source code, it is based on Wilco Bauwer’s Syntax Highlighter

Download Syntax Highlighter for Windows Live Writer

tags: tool, util, c#

Threading in C# An extensive article on multi-threading in C#. This tackles difficult issues such as thread safety, when to use Abort, Wait Handles vs Wait and Pulse, the implications of Apartment Threading in Windows Forms, using Thread Pooling, Synchronization Contexts, Memory Barriers and non-blocking synchronization constructs.

[Via Roy Osherove's Blog]

The Visual Studio.Net 2003 Service Pack 1 is available in microsoft.com. Use this URL to download it."Fixes in this Service Pack concern stability and security enhancements made in many areas of the product."

List of bugs that are fixed in Visual Studio NET 2003 Service Pack 1

This Visual Studio addin creates a VS tool window where a developer can write an XPath statement and test it against the current document. After running the XPath query, it will list and highlight the nodes returned from the query.

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