Quick introduction
From the first versions of Visual Studio .NET, it has been possible to document your classes directly in code and create the standard documentation sections (such as the summary, remarks, parameter descriptions etc) which contain the standard tags. But for us, developers, it was quite inconvenient to fully document our classes and create such long sections as remarks directly in code. The situation is worse in the case when the documentation is created by a technical writer and the code is created by a developer; it is not quite appropriate for them to work with the same source files simultaneously. Our company, 10Tec (http://www.10Tec.com), also encountered all these problems while working on our first .NET component, iGrid grid control that acts like a fast and easy replacement for the standard .NET DataGrid control. We decided to solve them by creating our own tool and gave it a name "DocMounter". DocMounter became a tool to separate the code from the documentation without loss of the conveniences provided by Visual Studio, and even more. Step by step the tool was being improved, and finally it has become an easy-to-use application that can be useful for other developers. The actual version implements many useful features you cannot get from the standard VS XML documentation technique. Read more: Codeplex
From the first versions of Visual Studio .NET, it has been possible to document your classes directly in code and create the standard documentation sections (such as the summary, remarks, parameter descriptions etc) which contain the standard tags. But for us, developers, it was quite inconvenient to fully document our classes and create such long sections as remarks directly in code. The situation is worse in the case when the documentation is created by a technical writer and the code is created by a developer; it is not quite appropriate for them to work with the same source files simultaneously. Our company, 10Tec (http://www.10Tec.com), also encountered all these problems while working on our first .NET component, iGrid grid control that acts like a fast and easy replacement for the standard .NET DataGrid control. We decided to solve them by creating our own tool and gave it a name "DocMounter". DocMounter became a tool to separate the code from the documentation without loss of the conveniences provided by Visual Studio, and even more. Step by step the tool was being improved, and finally it has become an easy-to-use application that can be useful for other developers. The actual version implements many useful features you cannot get from the standard VS XML documentation technique. Read more: Codeplex
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