creating help for application

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

I have used the

Microsoft HTML Help Compiler
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=00535334-c8a6-452f-9aa0-d597d16580cc&displaylang=en

and there are 3rd party tools such as

RoboHelp
http://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp/productinfo/overview/office_pro_net.html

which 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.

 

Answer 3

thanks for the info. The guide looks promising, I'll try it out.

thnaks again

Answer 4

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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