creating help for application
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Monday, August 28, 2006 7:41 AM
Hi,
Can anyone guide me to any good threads, links etc. on how to make help for an application? It seems that most books have left it out, and my app needs a help feature to make the grade. Thanks for all assistance tendered.
Thank you.
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Monday, August 28, 2006 8:11 AM
A.F.B wrote: Hi,
Can anyone guide me to any good threads, links etc. on how to make help for an application? It seems that most books have left it out, and my app needs a help feature to make the grade. Thanks for all assistance tendered.
Thank you.
Hi AFB,
I recommend looking into using Microsoft's HTML Help 1.4 SDK. It is a free program with good documentation on how to create your own help file.
The MSDN homepage for the HTML Help 1.4 SDK is: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/vsconHH1Start.asp
The MSDN Download page for HTML Help 1.4 SDK is: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp
I hope this helps.
Thank you,
James
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:28 AM
I have used the
Microsoft HTML Help Compiler
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=00535334-c8a6-452f-9aa0-d597d16580cc&displaylang=enand there are 3rd party tools such as
RoboHelp
http://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp/productinfo/overview/office_pro_net.htmlwhich assist in creating help files which can be used with windows applications.
The help compiler seems to be OK and we created a simple web help system using frontpage and then converted it to a Compiled Help file which we used from our applicaiton. This was using the HTML Help compiler that was pretty straightforward.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:15 AM
thanks for the info. The guide looks promising, I'll try it out.
thnaks again

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Friday, September 08, 2006 11:35 PM
Dear Sir,
You can read my thread. Visual Basic 2005 Simple Guide in MSDN Forums/Visual Basic 2005 /General/ Visual Basic 2005 Simple Guide .OK
Bye.
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