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Generating API Documentation?

Posted by Cliff on from the ease-the-trials-of-documentation dept.

Preda asks: "I have been recently tasked with generating API documentation for new and legacy code. Given the amount of legacy code (in C, VB6, VB.NET, PHP, and other languages) and new code that needs to be documented, are there any easy auto generating API programs out there. I have done a few searches but nothing that I have found stood out as a 'use me' solution. Does anyone have any advice?"

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  1. doxygen, commentator by Dioscorea · · Score: 5, Informative
    I like doxygen for C++. It's modeled on javadoc and plots nice dependency and hierarchy graphs using graphviz.

    Other than that, there's the Commentator...