Sandcastle
Build professional help files for .NET libraries with Sandcastle Help File Builder
About Sandcastle
Sandcastle Help File Builder (SHFB) is a powerful toolset for creating comprehensive help files for .NET class libraries. It combines Sandcastle tools with a user-friendly GUI, Visual Studio integration, and MSBuild tasks to streamline the creation of both API reference and conceptual documentation. Originally developed by Microsoft, SHFB continues to evolve with community support, offering features like Markdown and MAML content conversion, automated builds, and extensive configuration options.
Pricing
Full pricing pageFree
The basics for individuals and organizations
- Unlimited public/private repositories
- Host open source projects in public GitHub repositories
- Dependabot security and version updates
- 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 500MB of Packages storage
- Issues & Projects
- Community support
Team
Advanced collaboration for individuals and organizations
- Everything included in Free
- Access to GitHub Codespaces
- Repository rules
- Multiple reviewers in pull requests
- Draft pull requests
- Code owners
- Required reviewers
- Pages and Wikis
- Environment deployment branches and secrets
- 3,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 2GB of Packages storage
- Web-based support
- GitHub Secret Protection
- GitHub Code Security
Enterprise
Security, compliance, and flexible deployment
- Everything included in Team
- Data residency
- Enterprise Managed Users
- User provisioning through SCIM
- Enterprise Account to centrally manage multiple organizations
- Environment protection rules
- Repository rules
- Audit Log API
- SOC1, SOC2, type 2 reports annually
- FedRAMP Tailored Authority to Operate (ATO)
- SAML single sign-on
- Advanced auditing
- GitHub Connect
- 50,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 50GB of Packages storage
- Premium support
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