I’ve updated the online demo for Help Builder’s .NET Import utility on the Web Site. This is something that’s been online for a few years actually in various forms, but I’ve just updated the online installation of Help Builder on the server to the latest version so you can check out some of the new templates and import features.

 

The demo can be found here:

 

http://www.west-wind.com/wwHelp/wwHelpClassGenerator.wst

 

This page lets you upload a .NET assembly and have Help Builder generate a CHM and HTML page documentation from your assembly. The whole thing gets downloaded to you as a Zip file when it’s done. The demo defaults to C# style syntax (Help Builder can do either C# or VB style).

  

Note that there are a few limitations to this demo – specifically it only works with self-contained assemblies. If the assemblies are referencing types that are not in the GAC or in the provided assembly the import will fail.

 

The demo also works with COM type libraries. Check it out and let me know how you fare.

 

I had a Web Service running with this functionality as well, but people were abusing that pretty heavily sending up junk so I pulled the plug on the service.