The .5 release of GhostDoc builds up on the version 4.0 features offering more flexibility for spell checking and help file generation. Most significant changes in v4.5 are:

• (Pro) New Template Libraries feature with Export/Import
• (Pro) New output formats for generated Help files
  • Html Help1 (.CHM)
  • MS Help 2 (.HxS)
  • MS Help Viewer aka MS Help 3 (.MSHC)
  • Website (HTML, ASP.NET, PHP)
• (Pro) Options Dialog: solution specific settings for Ignore lists, Solution Dictionary and Help File, User Dictionary
• (Pro) Added Spelling suggestions window to replace SmartTag. The older SmartTag option can be turned back on in the Options
• (Pro) Custom tag support in Preview Comments and Build Help File
• (Pro) AllMembers, Methods, Properties, Events, Fields, Operators sections to the generated Help file
• Combined arguments of the same exception type into tag text
• Help file/Preview now renders correct project language
• Added syntax highlighting of the blocks in Help File/Preview
• Added "Send Feedback..." to enable easy way of providing feedback right from the product menu

For complete list of v4.5 changes see What's New in GhostDoc and GhostDoc Pro v4.5

Template Libraries

While GhostDoc Pro T4 template mechanism provides maximum flexibility how you can tweak and reconfigure your XML Comments and even regular comments, until now there was no easy way to share the set of templates with your team or the community.

Today we are introducing Template Libraries - you can Export the whole set of your custom templates and distribute it as one file which can be imported. Template Library includes meta-data - the library author, company name and contact information. To access the feature use Options -> Rules -> Export.

We will be hosting a section on our web site where we publish GhostDoc Pro Template Libraries we release. If you have specific comment formats you want us to release, send your requests in.

We also want to encourage sharing your templates with the community. Contact us if you have template library you was us to publish.

New Help File Formats and Options

When we introduced a simple single click way of generating help file from your project XML comments, we realized that just one CHM format is not enough and we would need to add options to tweak your help file output.

Today GhostDoc Pro can build into the following help file formats:

• Html Help1 (.CHM)
• MS Help 2 (.HxS)
• MS Help Viewer aka MS Help 3 (.MSHC)
• Website (HTML, ASP.NET, PHP)

You also have the following options when building help file with GhostDoc Pro:

• Select solution projects that you want to be included into the help file
• Define Header and Footer for the help file pages
• Decide whether you want to include Private, Internal, Protected members

How do I try it?

Download v4.5 at http://submain.com/download/ghostdoc/

Note to GhostDoc Pro v3 users: Your v3 license won’t work with v4. We will be sending new license codes shortly to those of you with License Protection.

We are happy to announce the release of GhostDoc v4 and GhostDoc Pro v4 aligned with Visual Studio 2012 release as part of our VS2012 sim-ship commitment!

Version 4 is a major milestone for us with great new features and rewrites that we have done over the last year. Here are the most significant additions to the GhostDoc feature set:

• Visual Studio 2012 support
• (Pro) Source code Spell Checker
• C/C++ language support
• XML Comment Preview
• (Pro) Build Help File
• StyleCop Compliance – comments generated by GhostDoc are now pass StyleCop validation
• Exception Documentation - exceptions raised within a method are documented in the XML Comment
• (Pro) File Header menu and template
• (Pro) Visual Studio toolbar with commands for documenting, comment preview and spell-checking
• (Pro) Options -> Global Properties - allows to reference custom configured user properties within T4 templates (CodeIt.Right users will find this very familiar)
• (Pro) IntelliSense in the T4 template editor
• Version update notification – you won’t miss new version release ever again!

For detailed list of v4 changes see What's New in GhostDoc and GhostDoc Pro v4.0

Spell Checker

GhostDoc Pro Spell Checker features:

• Check Spelling as you type
• Spell Checking for XML Comments
• Spell Checking for code elements
• Spell Checking for strings and comments
• Spelling SmartTag in the VS Code Editor
• Added support for OpenOffice dictionaries and multiple languages
• Ignore files and file extensions
• Custom User Dictionary
• Custom Dictionary by Solution
• Solution wide Spelling Report
• Check Spelling for
  • Active Document
  • Selected Documents
  • Current Project
  • Entire Solution

Comment Preview

Do you want to see how your XML Comment will look like in the help file? Have HTML tags encoded in the XML Comment and want to make sure your HTML is correct? GhostDoc Comment Preview is here to help!

How do I try it?

Download v4 at http://submain.com/download/ghostdoc/

Note to Beta testers: We appreciate your contribution to this release and we will be contacting shortly those of you who provided feedback during the alpha/beta testing program.

Note to GhostDoc Pro v3 users: We have changed licensing schema in v4.0 and your v3.x license codes won't work with v4.0. For users with License Protection we will be sending v4.x license codes shortly. Users without the License Protection have to purchase new version - currently we are not offering upgrade path other than the License Protection program.

Note to GhostDoc Pro v3 users: Please use the temporary license above, your v3 license won’t work with v4. Once v4 is released we will be sending new license codes to those of you with License Protection.

After a round of private Alpha/Beta for GhostDoc we are excited to release Beta 2 of GhostDoc and GhostDoc Pro and make it available as part of the public Beta program!

Version 4 is a major milestone for us with great new features and rewrites that we have done over the last year. Here are the most significant additions to the GhostDoc feature set:

• Visual Studio 2012 support
• (Pro) Source code Spell Checker
• C/C++ language support
• XML Comment Preview
• StyleCop Compliance – comments generated by GhostDoc are now pass StyleCop validation
• Exception Documentation - exceptions raised within a method are documented in the XML Comment
• (Pro) File Header menu and template
• (Pro) Visual Studio toolbar with commands for documenting, comment preview and spell-checking
• (Pro) Options -> Global Properties - allows to reference custom configured user properties within T4 templates (CodeIt.Right users will find this very familiar)
• (Pro) IntelliSense in the T4 template editor
• Version update notification – you won’t miss new version release ever again!

For detailed list of v4 changes see What's New in GhostDoc and GhostDoc Pro v4.0

Spell Checker

GhostDoc Pro Spell Checker features:

• Check Spelling as you type
• Spell Checking for XML Comments
• Spell Checking for code elements
• Spell Checking for strings and comments
• Spelling SmartTag in the VS Code Editor
• Added support for OpenOffice dictionaries and multiple languages
• Ignore files and file extensions
• Custom User Dictionary
• Custom Dictionary by Solution
• Solution wide Spelling Report
• Check Spelling for
  • Active Document
  • Selected Documents
  • Current Project
  • Entire Solution

Comment Preview

Do you want to see how your XML Comment will look like in the help file? Have HTML tags encoded in the XML Comment and want to make sure your HTML is correct? GhostDoc Comment Preview is here to help!

How do I try it?

Download the BETA at http://submain.com/download/ghostdoc/beta/

What’s in it for me?

We will be rewarding GhostDoc Pro licenses (as we always do) at the end of the private/public beta program to those who provide feedback.

Where do I post feedback?

Please post your v4 Beta feedback in the GhostDoc Beta forum

What about GhostDoc Pro license?

The Pro trial license will allow you to run it for 14 days. To get past that point, please use the license below:

063A0-29A49-A6083-692D1-32CFC      <- good through 09/01/2012

19E95-459BB-E531B-288C0-08659        <- good through 10/01/2012

Note to GhostDoc Pro v3 users: Please use the temporary license above, your v3 license won’t work with v4. Once v4 is released we will be sending new license codes to those of you with License Protection.

We posted earlier that on 2/29 when Microsoft announced the Visual Studio 11 Beta, SubMain was one of the first partners with CodeIt.Right product that provided full support for the new VS Beta. We currently are running private Beta program for our GhostDoc product that is also VS11 Beta compatible.

We are happy to announce that SubMain is one of the partners to sim-ship (Simultaneously Ship) our products together with the Visual Studio 11 RTM! You will be able to enjoy fully compatible version of our products when you install Visual Studio 11 on the release day!

In the meantime you are welcome to test drive CodeIt.Right and GhostDoc together with Visual Studio 11 Beta:

PrettyCode.Print and StudioTools no longer fit our strategic corporate direction to deliver best code quality tools on the market.

Discontinuing these products enables us to reinvest the efforts into our flagship products and offer even better code quality tools. We will be releasing new greatly enhanced versions of our existing products as well as new products over the next six months. For a sneak peek of what’s coming please see our Product Feedback board.

PrettyCode.Print
PrettyCode.Print for VB6/VBA and PrettyCode.Print for .NET will no longer be further developed. Both products will be converted into a free download in their current state. While we will continue to offer technical support for PrettyCode.Print products for six more month from now, there will be no enhancements, improvements nor bug fixes for these two products. You can download PrettyCode.Print for VB6/VBA and PrettyCode.Print for .NET in the Community Downloads section.

CodeIt.Once
CodeIt.Once is retired and no longer available for download. We encourage you to learn about our CodeIt.Right product which offers automated refactorings and proactively finds the opportunities for refactoring and improving your code.

StudioTools
StudioTools is retired and will no longer be offered for download or supported.

CodeSpell
CodeSpell will not be available for purchase for approximately 6 months. The CodeSpell engine is being rewritten to allow greater flexibility and better features, after which, the code spelling feature will be offered as part of our GhostDoc Pro product. All customers that purchased CodeSpell from SubMain (after March 9th, 2010) will be offered, at no charge, the equivalent number of licenses for GhostDoc Pro once the code spelling feature is released.

We sincerely appreciate your continued support and look forward to working with you in the future.

SubMain is proud to spread the holiday cheer by offering customers best savings of the year with free 1 year of Software Assurance and Support, free lifetime License Protection and great savings on multiple license purchases.

Get Software Assurance and Support absolutely free!

From now until January 7, purchase any new CodeIt.Right licenses and receive 1 year of Software Assurance and Support subscription at no additional cost. Normally priced at $100 per user ($150 per user for Enterprise Edition), Software Assurance annual subscription plan is the most cost effective and convenient way to stay current with the latest versions of our products and get priority support when you need it.

Plus free License Protection!

If you purchase just released GhostDoc Pro, you will receive free License Protection and secure GhostDoc Pro updates and new versions at no charge for the product lifetime.

GhostDoc Pro Edition is enhanced version of the product that gives users complete control over your XML Comment content and layout as well as automates XML Comment generation via batch actions.

It is easy to get your free software assurance subscription and license protection. Just place your order on the SubMain website by January 7, and we will automatically give you the free year of software assurance and support subscription. If your purchase includes GhostDoc, you will automatically receive lifetime license protection for free too. No hassle. No headaches.

But wait, there is more!

On the top of the free offers above, you can save even more when you buy multiple CodeIt.Right licenses:

• Save 20% on CodeIt.Right Standard Edition 5 license pack
  
  
• Save 30% on CodeIt.Right Enterprise Edition 10 license pack
  

Email us at sales@submain.com for information on the the 5 and 10 pack discounts.

Need more info about SubMain products?

Ready to get your holiday bonus?

Still have questions?

No problem! Contact the SubMain sales department via email sales@submain.com

Today we are announcing the release of GhostDoc v3.0 - a new major release of the product. This version includes product usability and menu changes, adds many new features - menus, configuration rules, configuration options. It also features new error logging to improve troubleshooting of GhostDoc issues. The new version introduces GhostDoc Pro Edition - enhanced version of the product that gives users complete control over your XML Comment content and layout as well as automates XML Comment generation via batch actions.

For Edition comparison please see GhostDoc product page - http://submain.com/ghostdoc/

New in v3.0:

• (Pro Only) New Document Type feature - generates XML comments for the entire type/class
• (Pro Only) New Document File feature - generates XML comments for the entire file
• (Pro Only) Introduced T4 template based rules that replace rule macros of the Free version
• Improved support for VS2010
• New Load/Unload menu items allow to disable GhostDoc temporary without uninstalling it
  
• New Help menu item
  
• New option to and menu to Re-assign Shortcut
• Added Rule for read-only property to turn off generation of the tag line
• Added Rule for private constructor
• Added support for new tags - <inheritdoc>, <author> and <remarks>
• Added support for enums, delegates and fields
• Added option to modify Configuration Folder path
• Added option to Keep Single Line when for long comments
  
• Changed leading tabs to leading spaces for compatibility with other products
  
• Changed "gets or sets" summary prefix to just "Gets" when setter is private
• Fixed automatically implemented properties issue

GhostDoc and GhostDoc Pro build 3.0.10340 are available for download right now at http://submain.com/download/ghostdoc/

Please note GhostDoc EULA was updated to reflect the introduction of GhostDoc Pro.

Code Quality developer tools is the direction we've been following since the introduction of CodeIt.Right and we are taking this commitment to the next level in 2010 with two new products and new features for our existing products.  One of the new products to be released in 2010 will assist in unit testing, code coverage and test code profiling; the second new product will be complementary to CodeIt.Right.  All three products together will comprise our new Code Quality Suite.  Additionally, we will continue to keep up with the Visual Studio 2010 release schedule and have all of our products 2010 compatible when VS2010 is RTM.

Here is what we are planning for 2010:

• New product !
  
  
• Coming March 2010:  we are adding to our product line by offering a unit test runner and code coverage product.
  
  
• New product!
  
  
• Project Anelare (code name) - we will provide details on this project as we get closer to a public preview.  At this point we can share that this will be product complementary to CodeIt.Right - together they will encompass our code quality package.
  
  
• VS2010 support
  
  
• For all products - most of our products are compatible with VS2010 RC, and we will be VS2010 RTM compatible by the time it RTMs.
  
  
• CodeIt.Right
  
  
• Optimized rule library performance:  the new version will be released the first week in March!
  
  
• Community Rule Valuation & Review: we are pioneering "social" in code analysis by enabling the community to rate rules and provide feedback; as well as leverage the community feedback, best uses and best practices for each rule.
  
  
• NEW Rules - with emphasis on security, FxCop/StyleCop parity, SharePoint, WPF & Silverlight rules.
  
  
• (EE) Trend Analysis: monitor code quality improvements over time.
  
  
• (EE) Integration with manual code review tools.
  
  
• Global Suppressions:  adding support for GlobalSuppressions and extending syntax of the SuppressMessage attribute for more flexible in-code exclusions.
  
  
• Multi-select in the violations list.
  
  
• Copy Rule feature:  clone and change rule instance configuration
  
  
• Command line enhancements: open command line/build violations output in Visual Studio for correction
  
  
• Annotation: for excludes and corrections
  
  
• XAML support:  enables building Silverlight and WPF specific rules
  
  
• Profile Wizard:  quick start no-brainer user/project profile based on the project type, importance, community valuation, favorite food, etc
  
  
• GhostDoc
  
  
• We are currently prioritizing the feature set for the new version of GhostDoc. If you have a feature request that you have not submitted yet, share them with us in the GhostDoc forum.
  
  

As announced earlier today we just closed the acquisition of the popular XML Comment helper tool GhostDoc. We, SubMain, will continue to evolve the tool and distribute it as a free product.

We are also announcing today the availability of the new version of GhostDoc v2.5.09150 which improves the user setup experience, adds support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and full support for Visual Basic.

Additionally, today we are making available a new version of CodeIt.Right (v1.6.09151) that adds the IntelliComment feature based on the GhostDoc algorithm and offers improved and automated generation of XML Comments.

We are very excited about taking over the future of an excellent tool such as GhostDoc! We are committed to maintaining this wonderful free tool and we welcome the community feedback and suggestions.

For more on the agreement, please see the press release and interview with Serge Baranovsky and Roland Weigelt - What's in the shop for GhostDoc?

Download GhostDoc v2.5.09150 here - http://submain.com/download/ghostdoc 

Download CodeIt.Right v1.6.09151 here - http://submain.com/download/codeit.right