Sandcastle AlternativesDocumentation Generators and other similar apps like Sandcastle

Sandcastle is described as 'Produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. Sandcastle has the following key features:' and is a documentation generator in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Sandcastle for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Sandcastle alternative is Doxygen, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Sandcastle are Slate API Docs Generator, DocFX, phpDocumentor 2 and NDoc.

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  1. Doxygen icon
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    Doxygen is a tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources, as well as other popular programming languages like C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL (CORBA, Microsoft, and UNO/OpenOffice flavors), Fortran, VHDL, Tcl, and to some extent D.

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    • Mac
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    Doxygen VS Sandcastle

     
    • Doxygen is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Sandcastle.

    • Doxygen is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Sandcastle.

    • Doxygen is Free and Open SourceSandcastle is also Free and Open Source
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    Create beautiful, intelligent, responsive API documentation.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    Slate API Docs Generator VS Sandcastle

     
    • Slate API Docs Generator is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Sandcastle.

    • Slate API Docs Generator is Free and Open SourceSandcastle is also Free and Open Source
  3. DocFX icon
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    DocFX generates Documentation directly from source code (.NET, RESTful API, JavaScript, Java, etc...) and Markdown files.

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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    PHP documentation generator based on docblock parsing.

    phpDocumentor 2, result of the merge between the old phpDocumentor and DocBlox , sometimes referred to as phpdoc or phpdocu, is the current standard auto-documentation tool for the php la.

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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    NDoc generates class library documentation from .NET assemblies and the XML documentation files generated by the C# compiler (or with an add-on tool for VB.NET).

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • .NET Framework

    NDoc Features

    1.  NET Framework

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  6. DoxyS icon
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    DoxyS is a code documentation tool for C++/C. DoxyS strives to yield a very professional looking output, presenting the the code in a structured easy to navigate set of HTML pages. Easy to use: Just navigate to the root of your code directory and type doxys.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    DoxyS Features

    1.  Wiki

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  7. CppDoc icon
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    CppDoc generates HTML documentation for C++ classes, based on your source code and special comments embedded within it. It can produce output that is very similar to the output of Javadoc, and it supports Javadoc tags such as @see, @return , etc.

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    CppDoc Features

    1.  Portable

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  8. sharpDox icon
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    sharpDox is a documentation tool to create c# code documentation of any type. The tool creates a model of a given c# solution and passes it to the registered export plugins. The plugins transform the model to a defined output.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    sharpDox Features

    1.  C-sharp

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  9. Natural Docs icon
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    Natural Docs is an open-source documentation generator for multiple programming languages. You document your code in a natural syntax that reads like plain English. Natural Docs then scans your code and builds high-quality HTML documentation from it.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Perl

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    Javadoc is a tool from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation in HTML format from doc comments in source code.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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    Doc-O-Matic is a software source code documentation and Help authoring tool. It takes source code and comments, adds conceptual topics and external input and produces documentation from it. With its single-source approach it generates many different kinds of output from a single...

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    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Visual Studio

    Doc-O-Matic Features

    1.  C++

    Doc-O-Matic VS Sandcastle

     
    • Doc-O-Matic is the most popular commercial alternative to Sandcastle.

    • Doc-O-Matic is Paid and ProprietarySandcastle is Free and Open Source
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    EDoC++ is a C++ source analysis tool designed to identify problems associated with the use of exceptions in C++ code. Additionally EDoC++ can be used to generate detailed documentation

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    EDoC++ Features

    1.  C++

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