Adding integrated help to my application

Adding integrated help to my application

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ajj3085 posted on Friday, January 12, 2007

Hi,

I'd like to add help functionality to my application.  I like how the
integrated help displays in Visual Studio, and would like to simulate
this in my own application.

What technologies / components would I need to look at to get this
working?  I would want the viewer on its own form, which would be set
as an MDI child.

Thanks
Andy

DansDreams replied on Monday, January 15, 2007

I'm working on this right now myself.  Take a look at the HelpProvider component.  I don't know about the MDI child part though.

We're leaning toward this software for creating the chm files.  It looks like it will do what we want and is affordable, and has an interesting form capture feature.

http://www.drexplain.com/

 

ajj3085 replied on Wednesday, January 17, 2007

They look good, I also found that HelpStudio Lite comes with the VS 2005 SDK.

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