Welcome to LumiCode

Good documentation contributes to the productivity of your development team and the quality of the software they produce. But good documentation is often scarce, and the reason is that it's hard to produce.

LumiCode makes producing good documentation easy! And because it gets its data directly from your assemblies, it will work with C#, VB.NET, or any other .NET languages

Why you need LumiCode

The Exploration Experience

LumiCode is for exploring software, not just documenting it. When you have a question about the software you are working on, rather than see if a document exists, explore the software with LumiCode. The views you create are saved as named tabs in the application, so they can be viewed on-screen or printed. To work this way, a tool must be fast.

Speed of Use

Anyone who has used a graphical software design tool knows what time sinks they can be. Hours turn into days.

LumiCode performs automatic layout based on the relationships between your classes and methods. Then you can quickly "tweak" the layout to look exactly how you like it. This can be done in seconds.

Complexity Control

To learn how a jet engine works, you would not start with a stack of blueprints. That's way more information than you can deal with. What you want is a simple conceptual diagram that you can understand.

In the same way, complicated, hard to understand software diagramed in great detail becomes a set of complicated, hard to understand diagrams.

LumiCode lets you show only the details that illuminate your design. Rather than wall charts, you produce sets of single page documents that clarify the part of the design you are interested in.

Sharing

The more you share your documents, the more valuable they become. With LumiCode Web Publishing, you can be sure that all your team members will get the benefit of the documents you create.

So what can LumiCode do?

Step through the Quick Start for a quick tour, and then begin exploring your own code.

Also, see UsefulGuidelines for hints on how to make the best use of LumiCode.