Top 15 GhostDoc Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Supported platforms:
Visual Studio 2015 incl. Community Edition
Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio 2012
Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2008

Supported Languages:
C#, Visual Basic, C#, C++/CLI, JavaScript

Comment stub creation/update works also for C++

GhostDoc is a Visual Studio extension that automatically generates XML documentation comments for methods and properties based on their type, parameters, name, and other contextual information.

1. DocBlox

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2. Asciidoclet

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3. sharpDox

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4. Doclets.io

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5. Read The Docs

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6. Daux.io

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7. ForgeDoc

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8. Doxygen

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9. CppDoc

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10. phpDocumentor 2

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11. Codex

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12. Document! X

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13. Texinfo

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14. Sandcastle

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15. NDoc

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