Background
The Sandcastle application was developed by Microsoft to create a scalable and performing documentation generator for their API documentation. Microsoft released Sandcastle as a Community Technology Preview (CTP) version in July 2006, a few days before NDoc was declared dead The author of NDoc, Kevin Downs, cited in an email sent through his mailing list reasons for discontinuing development of his popular tool as a lack of community support, both financially and as development contributions, an automated mail-bomb attack on his public email address and the NDoc2 mailing list address, and also his impression that Sandcastle "will become the de-facto standard and that NDoc will slowly become a stagnant side-water."
Sandcastle averaged 217 downloads per day during the month of September 2010, making it one of the top 25 most downloaded projects on CodePlex.
On June 6, 2008 the SandCastle project was removed from CodePlex website after a discussion thread on the CodePlex site pointed out that source code was not available; despite CodePlex requiring this and the SandCastle project being touted as "open source". On July 2 the project returned to CodePlex and the source code was published.
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