• Fixed a bug in the Post Transform Component that caused it to fail due to a change in the 1.6.0.1 release that altered the output path.
• Fixed a bug in the topic file transformation caused by the XML writer sometimes being held open after use.
• Dragging and dropping or editing a topics's properties in the Site Map Editor dialog now marks the file as changed so that it asks to save it when exiting the dialog.
• Moved the CreateConfig build step down so that it runs just before the BuildHelpTopics step to give plug-ins a chance to merge any necessary information with the stuff that ends up in the configuration file such as the comments file names.
• Removed the MinimumHelpFileBuilderVersion property from the IPlugIn interface as it isn't useful. The plug-ins are compiled against a specific signed version of the utilities assembly and won't load with a different version.
• Custom build component support has been reworked and enhanced. Custom build component information is now loaded from the .\BuildComponents folder. A configuration file is used to define the build components and specify how they should be merged with the sandcastle.config file. This allows new components to be added and configured easily from within the help file builder without having to modify its template files. See the Creating a BuildAssembler Build Component topic for more details.
• Added the IntelliSense Component. This build component is used to extract the XML comments into files that can be used for IntelliSense. Only the basic set of tags needed for IntelliSense are exported and only for documented API members.
• When clearing the output folder, read-only files and folders are ignored as they are assumed to be under source control.

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