# Help with SandCastle BuildAssembler

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/help-with-sandcastle-buildassembler/505
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [June 25, 2007, 7:17am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/help-with-sandcastle-buildassembler/505 "2007-06-25T07:17:50Z")
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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2007, 7:17am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/help-with-sandcastle-buildassembler/505/1 "2007-06-25T07:17:50Z")

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Hi,

I'm not sure what to put for the "Manifest Location" in the SandCastle BuildAssembler action. When I create help files manually, all I need is the SHFB file - what is the manifest and why does FinalBuilder need it?

Thank you!

-James

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### Author: ![paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/paulsamways)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/help-with-sandcastle-buildassembler/505/2 "2007-06-26T01:56:29Z")

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Hi James,   
  
 The SHFB file is a project file created by “Sandcastle Help File Builder”, which is a GUI-Frontend to the Sandcastle components (BuildAssembler, MRefBuilder & XslTransform). To build a SHFB project you will need to use the “Execute Program” action to call the command line version of this tool, “SandcastleBuilderConsole.exe -projectFile”, where projectFile is the path to the SHFB file.   
  
 If you would like to see how to use the Sandcastle actions you can read the following blog post, which contains a tutorial on using the SandCastle components directly, [https://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2006/07/29/682398.aspx](https://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2006/07/29/682398.aspx).   
  
 Regards,   
 Paul.

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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2007, 4:19am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/help-with-sandcastle-buildassembler/505/3 "2007-06-26T04:19:00Z")

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Thank you Paul! That was exactly what I needed.