Authoring Content

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There are several types of content that you can author using Document! X:

Authoring Conceptual Topics

If you would like to create free format Topics in addition to those generated by Document! X automatically, you can do so using the Topic Editor. The Topic Editor allows you to manually author free format content such as tutorials, getting started guides and task focused help.

The Topic Fundamentals topic covers the basics of working with Topics and using the Topic Editor.

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Authoring .NET Xml Source Comments

Document! X includes a Visual Comment Editor integrated with Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017 RC . The Visual Comment Editor makes it easy to author, review and edit content that you want to store as Xml format source comments in .NET source code.

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Authoring Additional Reference Content

If you would like to supplement the content of the pages automatically generated by Document! X outside of the source code, you can do so using the Document! X Content File Editor. The Content File Editor allows you to review and author content for any item for which a reference documentation page is generated.

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Creating Rules based Reference Content with AutoDoc

AutoDoc is a powerful Document! X feature that allows you to author content that is used in the generated output according to rules that you define. For example you might want to author some specific remarks for inclusion in every method with a particular name in order to prevent duplicating the same content in many places.

The AutoDoc overview topic contains more information about the AutoDoc feature.