Document! X for COM (ActiveX) Documentation
Automated COM Documentation Tool + WYSIWYG Authoring Environment
Document! X delivers the best of both worlds by seamlessly combining automatic documentation of compiled COM components, controls or Type Libraries with a full WYSIWYG authoring environment. The generated COM documentation is an accurate and comprehensive documentation set for your components covering classes, structs, interfaces, methods, properties and events.
Document! X will use any existing COM HelpString attributes (the descriptive attributes compiled into the component for Intellisense tooltips) where available. If you have defined Help Context IDs for your COM Components members, Document! X will ensure that all topics are given matching Context IDs such that context sensitive help called when the component is being used will invoke the correct help topic.
Content Authoring Options
If you have already defined HelpStrings in your COM Component or Type Library, Document! X can use them as summary text for the generated documentation and you can view the HelpStrings whilst you are editing to spot areas that need expansion and avoid duplication.
You can choose to author content in your component HelpString attributes, and/or using the rich authoring environment of the Document! X Content File editor. This flexibility allows you to include basic descriptive documentation in the source code and use the rich Document! X Content File editor to author extended content.
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Document! X automatically generates object relationship diagrams for your classes. Specific relationships can be ignored where necessary (e.g. a relationship back to a parent object). Collection objects are automatically recognized and appropriately represented.
Single Source Build and Publish
Your documentation projects can be built to Browser Help, CHM (Html Help 1.x) or Microsoft Help Viewer (Visual Studio® 2010-2022). All of the specific requirements for the different output formats are handled for your automatically and you can build all outputs from a single project. Automatic publishing makes it quick and simple to deploy the generated output to your web site, ftp server or network location.
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COM documentation templates are provided reflecting the Visual Studio 2008 and 2012 documentation styles. Documentation you generate will be familiar in structure, layout, style and functionality to your COM developers.