Generate your API documentation with DocFX

What is it

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

What's next

Check out the road map of DocFX here.

NOTE: For more information on DocFX v3, please visit the v3 working branch.

How to use

• Option 1: install DocFX through chocolatey package: choco install docfx -y.
• Option 2: install DocFX through nuget package: nuget install docfx.console, docfx.exe is under folder docfx.console/tools/.
• Option 3: play DocFX inside Visual Studio: create a Class Library (.NET Framework) project, Manage Nuget Packages to install docfx.console nuget package on the project, Build to create the generated website under folder _site.

For more information, please refer to Getting Started.

How to Contribute

For new comers, you can start with issues with help-wanted. 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.

DocFX Project

Apart from dev branch, stable branch builds daily, and master branch is the release branch.

How to build from source code

Prerequisites

1. Visual Studio 2017, minimum installation is enough.
2. Node.js, for building templates.

Steps

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

Build Status

	Build Status	Package	Chocolatey
master
stable

• Running Status

Running Status	Windows with .NET Core v2.0.3	Windows with VS2017	Ubuntu Linux with Mono