Question Help Files / Help system

[richRook]

OK - I've been searching the web in general (and this forum specifically) for information on setting up Help documentation on a project - but the 'help' in the search just seems to give too much

I've never set up help documentation and was wondering if there is a good primer anywhere on the web or in a book - I've looked through VB books and none cover this topic . . also the I've so far been unable to absorb the official MS docs.

Thank you
Rich

 

[Tom]

HTML Help Workshop and Documentation

There are also some third party products such as RoboHelp which were rather easy to use and implement into my programs, but they do seem rather expensive now that it must have been bought out by Adobe.

 

[jmcilhinney]

Once you've got a CHM file, you can use the System.Windows.Forms.Help and .HelpProvider classes to make it easier for the user to access it in specific ways, e.g. open it at a specific topic when pressing F1 when a specific control has focus.