Automated documentation for Microsoft Visual Studio "Whidbey'

TORQUAY, DEVON, UK – Innovasys announced Document! X 4.0, the documentation solution for developers using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. Document! X 4.0 automatically produces professional quality technical documentation and on-line help for Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies, COM components, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic for Applications source code and XSD Schemas. Document! X 4.0 introduces full-page-edit; visual comment designers for Visual C# .NET and Visual Basic .NET source code that allow developers to directly edit source comments within a preview of the generated documentation. Also new in this release is XSD documentation and a full object model for automation and extensibility. Document! X 4.0 will fully support Visual Studio "Whidbey'.

Developing accurate documentation, particularly for complex components or XSD schemas, has traditionally been a time consuming, costly and skills intensive task. Documentation during development can be seen as a moving target and at the end of a project developers are often immediately re-assigned to new development tasks, leaving most projects poorly documented. With Document! X 4.0, documentation can be automatically produced throughout design and development without requiring investment of developer resource, providing development teams with an accurate and up to date reference and allowing new developers to jump the learning curve of new components and schemas.

Richard Sloggett, technical director at Innovasys, said, "Document! X 4.0 makes producing documentation a natural and productive activity for developers and technical writers alike. We are particularly excited about the new comment editors integrated into Visual Studio .NET 2003 which allow Visual C# .NET and Visual Basic .NET developers to review their XML comments as they write them in a preview of the generated documentation, dramatically improving accuracy and productivity.'

"Document! X 4.0 provides a valuable documentation solution for Visual Studio ‘Whidbey',' said John Montgomery, director of product management in the Developer Platform and Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. "Microsoft is excited to be working with Innovasys to offer customers an easy-to-use and easy-to-manage documentation solution to enhance development with Visual ‘Whidbey.''

Further information on Document! X 4.0 can be obtained by contacting info@innovasys.net

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For more information, Press Only: Richard Sloggett, Innovasys, +44 1803 690340, Richard@innovasys.net Web: http://www.innovasys.net/default.asp?Cpid=prl