Generate your API documentation with DocFX

	Build Status	Package	Chocolatey
master
dev

What is it?

DocFX makes it extremely easy to generate your developer hub with API reference, landing page, and how-to.

We currently support C# and VB projects.

How to build?

Prerequisites

1. Microsoft Build Tools 2015
2. .NET Core 1.0.0 SDK 1.0.0-preview2-003121 x86 | x64
3. Node.js

Steps

1. Option 1: Run build.cmd under DocFX code repo.
2. Option 2: Open All.sln under DocFX code repo in Visual Studio and build All.sln.

• need Visual Studio 2015 Update 3.3 or later
• need .NET Core Tools for Visual Studio 2015

Possible build issues

1. Test failure with message \r\n not equal to \n for Windows Set git config --global core.autocrlf true

How do I play with DocFX?

Please refer to Getting Started.

Integrate with Continuous Integration environment

1. Install docfx through chocolatey package cinst docfx -y

2. Call docfx docfx docfx.json

docfx-seed project provides a sample integrating with AppVeyor.

Note

Known issue in AppVeyor: Currently platform: Any CPU in appveyor.yml causes docfx metadata failure. dotnet#1078

What's included?

File/Folder	Description
LICENSE	Project license information
README.md	Introduction to the project
CONTRIBUTING.md	Contribution guidelines to how to contribute to the repo
Documentation	Source for our documentation site
src	Source code for DocFX
test	Test cases for DocFX using xunit test framework
tools	Source code for tools used in code build and deployment

How to Contribute

Check out the contributing page to see the best places to log issues and start discussions. This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.

License

DocFX is licensed under the MIT license.

.NET Foundation

DocFX is supported by the .NET Foundation.