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.

Sandcastle alternatives are mainly Documentation Generators but may also be Code Editors. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Sandcastle.

Sandcastle

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Documentation Generator

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Doxygen
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Haiku
34 Doxygen alternatives
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.
- - Doxygen is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Sandcastle.
- - Doxygen is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Sandcastle.
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Slate API Docs Generator
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Free • Open Source
Documentation Generator
Mac
Linux
Self-Hosted
31 Slate API Docs Generator alternatives
Create beautiful, intelligent, responsive API documentation.
- - Slate API Docs Generator is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Sandcastle.
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DocFX
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Free • Open Source
Documentation Generator
Mac
Windows
Linux
37 DocFX alternatives
DocFX generates Documentation directly from source code (.NET, RESTful API, JavaScript, Java, etc...) and Markdown files.
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phpDocumentor 2
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Free • Open Source
Documentation Generator
Mac
Windows
Linux
15 phpDocumentor 2 alternatives
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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NDoc
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Free • Open Source
Documentation Generator
Windows
.NET Framework
14 NDoc alternatives
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).
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DoxyS
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
13 DoxyS alternatives
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.
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Wiki
CppDoc
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Free • Open Source
Documentation Generator
Windows
Linux
14 CppDoc alternatives
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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1. PortableCppDoc can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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Javadoc
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Free • Proprietary
Documentation Generator
Code Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
18 Javadoc alternatives
Javadoc is a tool from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation in HTML format from doc comments in source code.
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Natural Docs
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Perl
16 Natural Docs alternatives
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.
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sharpDox
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Free • Open Source
Documentation Generator
Windows
9 sharpDox alternatives
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.
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C-sharp
Doc-O-Matic
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
Microsoft Visual Studio
15 Doc-O-Matic alternatives
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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EDoC++
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Free • Open Source
Windows
18 EDoC++ alternatives
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
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