• Fixed the referenced namespace extraction code so that it finds referenced types regardless of where they appear in the reflection data.

• Fixed the component search so that it ignores security exceptions such as being denied access to certain subfolders.

• Fixed HelpLibraryManagerLauncher so that it correctly detects the default locale for Help Viewer 1.0 and 2.x when multiple help languages are present on the system.

• Fixed the TOC Exclusion plug-in so that it runs in the correct build steps.

• Fixed up some issues with non-GUID topic IDs that needed encoding in the intermediate TOC files.

• Changed the build engine to throw an exception with a message indicating that the component/plug-in configurations need to be updated if the old {@SandcastlePath} replacement tag is encountered.

• Enabled PreBuildEvent, PostBuildEvent, and RunPostBuildEvent property support in the help file builder targets file. A property page was added to allow editing the properties in the standalone GUI and the Visual Studio Package.

• Merged the C# IntelliSense extension code from Sam Harwell into the Visual Studio package to provide support for the extended XML comments elements from Sandcastle. Note that other languages do not support the extensions. Visual Basic does not provide any context to extend the XML comments easily and other languages like F# and C++ don't appear to provide XML comments IntelliSense at all.

• Added support for the new Open XML help file format and presentation style.

  Important
  The Open XML format has some specific requirements. See the Open XML Document Help File Format topic for details and information on troubleshooting problems with the resulting output.

• Added support for the new VS2013 presentation style. This is currently a clone of the VS2010 style with some changes to get rid of the background images, alter the syntax and code block tabs styles, and add collapsible sections. A future release will make further changes to bring it closer to the online Visual Studio content style.

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