Application Help (i.e. Help Class)

5 Jul 2009 4:44 PM

eBob.com

I am having great difficulty finding information and resources for creating
Help for an application. I find nothing of a tutorial nature anywhere.
(Probably because I get a lot of worthless hits as soon as I use "help" as a
search argument.) Microsoft info talks about the Help 1.4 SDK but links to
download it are busted. A non Microsoft site offers what it claims is the
MS Help 1.5 SDK but I get no hits for a 1.5 SDK on the MS site. Some
searches led me to something called VSHxK but that seemed to be for
generating VS Help and not for the Help for applications which I generate
using VS.

Any guidance would be appreciated. Especially a pointer to a tutorial.

(I did find something helpful on CodeProject but it is over 5 years old and
says little about how to construct the chm files.)

Thanks, Bob

5 Jul 2009 4:57 PM

Armin Zingler

eBob.com wrote:
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> I am having great difficulty finding information and resources for
> creating Help for an application. I find nothing of a tutorial
> nature anywhere. (Probably because I get a lot of worthless hits as
> soon as I use "help" as a search argument.) Microsoft info talks
> about the Help 1.4 SDK but links to download it are busted. A non
> Microsoft site offers what it claims is the MS Help 1.5 SDK but I get
> no hits for a 1.5 SDK on the MS site. Some searches led me to
> something called VSHxK but that seemed to be for generating VS Help
> and not for the Help for applications which I generate using VS.
>
> Any guidance would be appreciated. Especially a pointer to a
> tutorial.
>
> (I did find something helpful on CodeProject but it is over 5 years
> old and says little about how to construct the chm files.)
>
> Thanks, Bob

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9cwse3xa.aspx

Armin

6 Jul 2009 12:05 AM

James Hahn

Microsoft is quite good at telling you how to integrate help into your
application, but not so good at providing references to resources for
creating the help file in the first place.

There are commercial products which I am sure you could locate for yourself.

The MS product you need is HTML Help Workshop.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00535334-c8a6-452f-9aa0-d597d16580cc

Workshop help takes you through the process.

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>I am having great difficulty finding information and resources for creating
>Help for an application. I find nothing of a tutorial nature anywhere.
>(Probably because I get a lot of worthless hits as soon as I use "help" as
>a search argument.) Microsoft info talks about the Help 1.4 SDK but links
>to download it are busted. A non Microsoft site offers what it claims is
>the MS Help 1.5 SDK but I get no hits for a 1.5 SDK on the MS site. Some
>searches led me to something called VSHxK but that seemed to be for
>generating VS Help and not for the Help for applications which I generate
>using VS.
>
> Any guidance would be appreciated. Especially a pointer to a tutorial.
>
> (I did find something helpful on CodeProject but it is over 5 years old
> and says little about how to construct the chm files.)
>
> Thanks, Bob
>
>