I always thought it was strange that the “Build Code Comments” feature was missing from VS2005. What with the alternative comment generators being unable to cope too well with .NET 2.0 code, we were left with little option. NDoc was the best of the lot, but still had a couple of problems with generics and it was difficult to find a good working version to tweak.

Good news however. The first CTP of Sandcastle (which I assume is just the codename) will be released by Microsoft later this month or early next.

It’s what they use internally for their MSDN content so it can’t be at all bad, although why couldn’t it have been released sooner with the launch of VS2005 I don’t know?

Interestingly too, Kevin Downs, the developer behind NDoc, has apparently announced that he is no longer going to be working on NDoc.

Update:
You can now download it from here.