August 2006 Sandcastle CTP should be available to download shortly. Here is a summary of what's new in this CTP version:

1. Firefox support for Sandcasltle generated HTMs
2. 3 different link options (local, Index and MSDN) in sandcastle.config file.
3. /internal+- option in MrefBuilder enables documentation of private APIs to be produced for the internal consumption of development teams
4. Support for multi-dimensional arrays
5. Support for CHM Index.
6. Support for all C# tags and html style elements in code comments
7. Abilty to use environment variables in config files

Bug Fixes:

The following bugs have been fixed for this CTP.

1. BuildAssembler /?  shows the usage as “TocBuilder” and incorrect information.
2. XslTransform with no cmd line parameters crashes.
3. Sandcastle.config file would support environment variables for all paths instead of just some of them.
4. Typo: Info: ResolveReferenceLinksComponent: Preparing to querry MSDN topic URL web service.    “querry” should be “query”.
5. Error: An error occured while performing the transofmation. The error message is:…    “transofmation” should be “transformation”.
6. BuildAssembler: System.Null referenceException being thrown and tool dies for MREF build.
7. Exception tag from XML comments are not being populated in .chm file.
8. Sandcastle: CHM compile warnings should be fixed.
9. Sandcastle: Buildassembler is throwing exception and the resulting CHM has several issues.
10. Sandcastle losing encoding for localization builds.
11. Typos in various "error" messages.
12. Protected members are treated as public and C++ set methods for properties are documented with an extra comma
13. Sandcastle:Lists are not documented correctly
14. Sandcastle: Extra brackets in front of every parameter name
15. Sandcastle - System.NullReferenceException related to interface implementation
16. Sandcastle: BuildAssembler has a problem with multi-dimensional arrays
17. Sandcastle: Types are missing
18. Unhandled exception thrown by XslTransform
19. Sandcastle is dropping the text
20. BuildAssembler throws exception during attempt to overwrite a read-only file
21. Sandcastle: Generated htm files are missing reflection information.
22. Enable use of environment variables within Manifold BuildAssembler .config files
23. Sandcastle: Issue with interfaces inheriting from generic interfaces.
24. Sandcastle transforms does not process all XML elements from code comments
25. BuildAssembler  throws exception when processing WinSDK dlls