Latest News

10 April 2008: Product Update
Version 8.0 of the SQL Documentation Tool is now available. This version of the database documentor for SQL Server has improved RTF/Word document output and enhanced support for the SQL Server 2005 MS_Description field. View the full list of new SQL Documentation Tool features.

5 March 2008: Product Update
Version 9.1 of the .NET Documentation Tool is now available. This version is now able to document source code developed using version 3.0 and 3.5 of the .NET Framework, and there is also support for Silverlight/WPF source code. Note that this technology is still in the early stages of development by Microsoft and may be subject to change.

1 March 2008: Product Updater
A new product updates page has been added to the site giving information about how to update your product. New versions of products (starting with the .NET Documentation Tool) will all contain version checking functionality to enable them to check that they are the most recent editions of the software.

15 February 2008: Product Update
Version 3.5 of the Indexing Service Companion is now available.

12 February 2008: Product Update
Version 8.7 of the .NET Documentation Tool is now available. New features include enhanced support for C# and VB.NET partial classes, a new installer and there is improved support for SQL Server 2005 databases. See full list of new .NET Documentation Tool features.

23 January 2008: Product Update
Version 1.5 of the VB Documentation Tool is now available. This version of the Visual Basic 6.0 source documentor documents properties, and there are a few other refinements. See full list of new VB Documentation Tool features.

17 January 2008: Product Update
Version 7.9 of the SQL Documentation Tool is now available. This version of the database documentor for SQL Server has a refined GUI, an additional error logging option and the installer has been changed. View the full list of new SQL Documentation Tool features.

03 January 2008: Product Update
Version 3.1 of The Website Utility is now available - this version has the option to create an ASP.NET Search Facility for a website. The search facility is created in C#, but can be used from Visual Basic.NET. The ASP.NET search facility is fully .NET Framework compliant, being class based (with properties and methods) and returns search results as a standard .NET DataSet which can be used to populate .NET controls including DataViews and DataGrids. A fully annotated example search form and search results page is included. The product documentation has also been updated.

22 November 2007: Product Update
Version 3.0 of The Website Utility is now available - this version has support for SSL (https://) enabled websites.

11 November 2007: Product Relaunch
The Index Server Companion has been renamed as the Indexing Service Companion . The product is fully compatible with both Index Server (Windows NT4 Server) and Indexing Service (on Windows server products from Windows 2000 onwards).

4 November 2007: New Article
Article added to articles & whitepapers section: Building a website search engine

26 September 2007: Product Update
Version 7.8 of the SQL Documentation Tool is now available. This version is a substantial update over the previously publically available version 6.9.1. New features include: progress bar on GUI, a more robust GUI, database object dependencies may optionally be documented, specific database objects (e.g. tables, stored procedures, triggers etc.) may be excluded from the documentation, there is significantly enhanced support for SQL Server 2005 and stored procedures are now listed in RTF format report. View the full list of new SQL Documentation Tool features.

18 September 2007: New Article
Article added to articles & whitepapers section: Guidelines for writing software documentation.

14 September 2007: New Article
Article added to articles & whitepapers section: documenting a SQL Server database.

4 September 2007: Product Ordering Improvement
The JavaScript Banner Ad Rotator ordering process has now been fully automated so there will no longer be a delay between ordering and being able to use the full version of the script.

30 August 2007: New Website Launched
Our new software documentation portal is now available: http://www.softwaredocumentation.info/.

15 August 2007: Product Update
Version 7.5 of the ASP Documentation Tool™ is now available - this version has improved error handling, revamped GUI and a new installer. There is also an "Alerts" Report and enhanced SQL Server 2005 support - see the full list of new features.

14 August 2007: Enhanced Blogging
The blog can now be subscribed to as an RSS feed: Documentation Tools Blog Feed, making it easier to find out about new product releases and support issues.

14 August 2007: New Articles Section
Our articles and whitepapers section is now available.

10 August 2007: New Screenshots Page
Added a VB 6.0 Documentation Tool screenshots page.

30 July 2007: Product Update
Version 3.4 of the Index Server Companion is now available. SSL (https), NTLM and Basic Authentication are all now supported. [See list of changes].

10 July 2007: New Product Release
Our latest software documentation tool, the VB Documentation Tool, is now available. It is based on the popular ASP and .NET software documentation tools, but creates technical documentation for Visual Basic projects.

1 March 2007: .NET Samples
A new .NET documentation samples page shows sample output from the .NET Documentation Tool for a range of projects.

28 February 2007: Product Update
Version 8.3 of the .NET Documentation Tool is now available. This is a huge update of the previously publically available 7.6. New features include XML Comment support for VB.NET and properties are now documented.

16 February 2007: Blog Available
Our blog is now open at http://documentationtools.blogspot.com/. Any significant product news (including forthcoming functionality updates), FAQ's etc. will be posted to the blog.

10 January 2007: New Product Release
The PHP Documentation Tool is based on the popular ASP Documentation Tool but creates technical documentation for PHP web projects instead.

1 December 2006: Newsletter Withdrawl
In order to focus on product development, the newsletter service has been withdrawn. New product releases are publicised on this page, as well as our Blog, and on: Aspin, Aspwire, 411asp.net and Database Journal.

30 November 2006: Product Relaunch
The ASP.NET Documentation Tool has now been renamed to the .NET Documentation Tool. The .NET Documentation Tool now documents Windows.NET and Console projects, but it retains the ability to document ASP.NET web applications. Note that the .NET Documentation Tool and ASP.NET Documentation Tool products have the identical code base. Registered users of the ASP.NET Documentation Tool who have unexpired registration codes are eligible to download the .NET Documentation Tool. A new version is also available - there are a large number of enhancements, including the ability to document Enumerators and Constructors.

14 November 2006: Product Pricing Change
A site licensing option is now available for our products.

14 November 2006: Product Update
Version 3.1 of the Index Server Companion is now available. [See list of changes].

29 August 2006: Product Update
A major new update of the ASP.NET Documentation Tool is available - this version documents Windows.NET and Console projects as well as ASP.NET web applications, and it has hugely improved source code parsing. The evaluation version has also been updated.

16 August 2006: Product Update
Version 5.2 of the SQL Documentation Tool is now available. This version now lists databases by server name - this makes it easier to document the same named database in more than one server and allows server specific database content (i.e. Jobs and DTS Packages) to be documented in future releases.

3 August 2006: Product News
The product pricing structure has been reviewed - The Website Utility now costs $12.95 and the SQL Documentation Tool now costs $24.95. Note that the prices of the special offer product bundles remains the same. Buy the Premium editions of both the ASP and ASP.NET Documentation Tools, and the SQL Documentation Tool and Website Utility come free!

31 July 2006: Product Update
Version 5.9 of the ASP Documentation Tool™ is now available - this version has improved Microsoft SQL Server database error handling and an updated FAQ. An updated evaluation version is also available.

15 May 2006: Affiliate News
The RegNow software affiliates page has been updated with details of all our products.

17 April 2006: Product Update
Version 4.2 of the ASP.NET Documentation Tool is now available - this version is now compatible with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express.

10 April 2006: Product Update
Version 5.8 of the ASP Documentation Tool™ is now available - this version is now compatible with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express. An updated evaluation version is also available.

16 February 2006: Product Update
Version 2.8 of The Website Utility is now available. The Website Utility is now able to create a Google^TM SiteMap XML file for the website it analyses. This file may be uploaded to the Google Sitemaps website. If you want to know how to edit the sitemap, or you want to know any other technical details see http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/.

2 January 2006: Product Update
Version 4.0 of the ASP.NET Documentation Tool is now available. This version is able to parse and document ASP.NET 2.0 web applications. Further ASP.NET 2.0 compatibility will be built into subsequent releases.

12 December 2005: Product Update
Version 5.1 of the SQL Documentation Tool is now available. This version has a correction to the index documentation process.

5 December 2005: Product Update
Version 5.0 of the SQL Documentation Tool is now available. This version now documents indexes. [see full list of changes].

27 November 2005: Product Update
Version 3.5 of the ASP.NET Documentation Tool is now available. This version now includes Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) files within the documentation it creates.

2 November 2005: Product Update
Version 4.0 of the SQL Documentation Tool is now available. This version contains a few fixes, and adds support for trusted connections [see full list of changes].

18 June 2005: Product Update
Version 3.0 of the SQL Documentation Tool is now available. This version creates improved documentation of primary keys, and has some support for table column descriptions [see full list of changes].

17 June 2005: Product Update
Version 3.4 of the ASP.NET Documentation Tool is now available. This version has a number of updates, including the the ability to document SOAP/XML web service (.asmx) files.

8 June 2005: Product Update
Version 2.1 of the SQL Documentation Tool is now available. This version fixes an issue with triggers, and is faster at creating HTML Help format documentation [see full list of changes].

3 June 2005: Product Update
Version 2.0 of the SQL Documentation Tool is now available. This version documents full-text catalogs, adds a text reporting option and has a few other refinements [see full list of changes].

20 May 2005: Product Update
Version 1.1 of the SQL Documentation Tool is now available. This version adds an RTF documentation option, syntax highlighting of Transact SQL code and a few other refinements [see full list of changes].

8 May 2005: New Product Release
The SQL Documentation Tool creates technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and 2003 databases. Technical documentation is created in HTML and HTML Help formats. The HTML Help format documentation is fully searchable and cross referenced. The SQL Documentation Tool documents SQL Server Tables, Views, Stored Procedures, Triggers and Table Relationships [view HTML sample documentation or view HTML Help sample documentation].

24 April 2005: Product Update
Version 5.3 of the ASP Documentation Tool™ is now available - see the list of new features. The evaluation version has also been updated.

28 February 2004: ASP.NET Documentation Tool features in SYS-CON Media's Readers' Choice Awards
We are pleased to announce that the ASP.NET Documentation Tool ended up as first runner-up in the Best .NET Documentation and Help Tools category of the .NET Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards 2003. Thanks to everyone who voted for us.