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Remove support for all obsolete and deprecated features #83

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Changes made:

  • Removed unused tools: AggregateByNamespace, ChmBuilder, DBCSFix, MergeXml, SegregateByAssembly
  • Removed all deprecated presentation styles: Prototype, Hana, and VS2005
  • Removed the Hierarchical TOC plug-in
  • Dropped support for Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 from the Visual Studio package.
  • Dropped support for installing the schemas an snippets in Visual Studio 2008-2012 in the guided installer.
  • Removed topic (.topic) file transformation support
  • Removed the Help 2 file format and all related project properties: HtmlHelp2xCompilerPath, CollectionTocStyle, MSHelp2SdkLinkType, IncludeStopWordList, PlugInNamespaces
  • Moved the HelpFileVersion property to the Help File property page. It does not have to be in the form of a version number anymore.
  • Moved the HelpAttributes property to the MS Help Viewer property page.
  • Removed the CppCommentsFixup property and related code. Use the MemberIdFixUpPlugIn instead.
  • Removed the file system based additional content model used to add HTML topics to the TOC.
  • Removed project item metadata element ExcludeFromToc.
  • Removed all HTML file transformation options (code import, code colorizing, replacement tags, etc.). HTML files can still be included and referenced via a site map file but they will not receive any tranformation, nor will they appear in the TOC unless referenced via a site map file.
  • Removed support for HTML files from the content layout file editor and related classes.
  • Reviewed the TOC related classes and removed dead code.
  • Removed the deprecated /internal command line option from MRefBuilder.
  • Removed the obsolete platform configuration options and code from MRefBuilder.

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