• A new Prj Summary button appears on the main form in the Assemblies to Document section. It opens a form in which you can enter summary comments that should appear in the root namespaces page of the compiled help file.
• A new Namespaces button appears on the main form that allows you to specify which assemblies should appear in the help file and the namespace summaries to display in the root namespaces page and on the help page for each namespace. By default, all namespaces in all assemblies are documented with the exception of the global (unnamed) namespace that sometimes appears and contains private module details.
• The Add button used to add an assembly to document now opens a file selection dialog in which you can select one or more assemblies, executables, or comments files to document. It will assume that the matching file (assembly or comments file) has the same name as the selected file. If a match is not found, the missing file's name is set to Unknown and the Edit option can be used to fix it.
• The dependencies editor now allows the selection of a GAC item. This allows you to specify a dependency that only resides in the GAC and has no copy that resides elsewhere. At build-time, the GAC is queried and the necessary assembly is copied to the working folder for use by MRefBuilder.
• Added the ContentPlacement property that allows you to specify whether the additional content goes in ahead of the namespaces or after the namespaces in the table of contents.
• Added the IsDefaultPage property to the ContentItem class that allows you to indicate whether or not the content item is the default page. If no item is marked as the default page, the root namespaces page is used as the default page.
• Fixed a bug that caused the RootNamespaceContainer property to be ignored if there was no additional content defined.
• Fixed up issues in various properties related to ampersands causing exceptions because they cannot be interpreted by the .NET XML parser. The values are now HTML or URL encoded as needed.
• The value of the CopyrightText property is now treated as plain text. It will be HTML encoded where necessary to resolve issues related to the ampersand and the .NET XML parser. In addition, you can encode special characters such as the copyright symbol using an escaped hex value (i.e. © = \xA9).
• Reworked the "run process" code so that it now reports progress as the tools are running rather than at the end after the tool completes. This gives more immediate feedback especially during long running builds so that you can see that it is still alive. It also captures the standard error stream output so that if a tool throws an exception, that information is now captured in the log file as well. Where appropriate, the name of the script being executed is also logged.
• Increased the font size in the log viewer dialog box to 10pt so that it is easier to read.
• Path-related properties are now grouped in a new Paths category in the property grid on the main form.
• Visual Studio 2003 projects are now loaded using the default encoding rather than UTF-8 encoding to handle foreign language characters in the project properties.

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