A list of the tools used in the development of this project. All tool with the exception of Visual Studio are Open/Shared source. Some tools are required to compile the project if you have downloaded the source.

Paint.Net http://www.getpaint.net/
IMHO the best .Net based application available right now.

Sandcastle https://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/
Used for help file generation. Version 1.5 will be the first release of Ascend.Net to use this tool.

Sandcastle Help File Builder http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=SHFB
Makes Sandcastle a lot easier to use.

Wix http://wix.sourceforge.net/
Used to create the install MSI. Version 1.5 will be the first release of Ascend.Net to use this tool. Version 3 of this tool is required to compile the project source.

Wix ProjectAggregator http://wix.sourceforge.net/
Used with Wix to compile the install in Visual Studio. Version 1.5 will be the first release of Ascend.Net to use this tool. This tool is required to compile the project source.

Visual Studio 2005 http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/
The IDE used for development. Sorry, the Express version will not compile the solution. Other .Net 2.0 development platforms may work but are not tested.