Built-in Word Processor. Add a Hyperlink Hyperlinks are an important part of any help system allowing the user to go between related topics within the same help system as well as to go to a linked website or email address.
Create the Keyword Index The alphabetical Index of keywords allows the user of the help file to quickly find a specific term and one or more help topics which are associated with it.
To add a new keyword: On the View tab, click Keyword to open the Keyword tool. In the Keywords pane, type a new keyword. To edit the list of topics linked with a specific keyword: In the Keywords pane, right-click on the keyword you want to edit. In the popup menu, click Properties. In the Keyword Properties dialog, check the topics that you want to be associated with the selected keyword.
Click OK. Customize Help File Settings On this step, you should customize the common parameters of your help system such as title, copyright, the default help topic that you want to show when your help file is opened, language and encoding options, output directories, and other options. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. An HTML help project. The project file also contains information about how a compiled help file will appear.
Window definitions you create in the project file determine attributes of your help windows, such as size and position. Post your question to a community of , developers. Sign in Join Now. New Post. Rainer Queck. Hello NG, I am currently confronted with the task to equip a vs project with context sensitive online help F1.
My question now is, how can I generate a chm file which contains my help? Is there a way, that I can for example write my Help with word or some other editor and then use what ever tool to generate the chm file?
Regards Rainer Queck. Follow Post Reply. Note: The MSDN Managed Newsgroup support offering is for non-urgent issues where an initial response from the community or a Microsoft Support Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable.
Please note that each follow up response may take approximately 2 business days as the support professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex project analysis and dump analysis issues. Hi Linda, thanks for your efforts. I took a look at your link, and it looks like a nice simple tool. Unfortunately I need to implement graphics into my help too.
When building to CHM, the output is a single file that can be deployed to, and viewed on, any machine with Windows installed. Generate PDF booklets from the whole project content or a sub-section of Topics. The generated booklet can include a Table of Contents and Index. The automatically generated responsive support allows you to generate a single output that automatically adapts to the device profile; delivering an optimal browsing experience for Desktop, Tablet and Mobile from a single output.
Tablet and Mobile devices benefit from buttonized links, a button based fly out Table of Contents and other automatic features that dramatically improve the end user experience. The generated output can be automatically integrated with a range of Community Providers Facebook, Disqus, Livefyre or SolidOpinion allowing you to include rich community features in your help systems.
Help 2. You would choose this format if you need to integrate your generated documentation with these Visual Studio versions. The Help 2. Microsoft Help Viewer is the help technology used by Visual Studio Building Microsoft Help Viewer output and integrating your documentation with Microsoft Help Viewer ensures that help for the assemblies you document is only ever an F1 key press away to Visual Studio users.
Your built documentation can be automatically published to a range of locations; a network path, ftp server, Azure web site or IIS Internet Information Services Server. Publishing recongizes which files have changed in the last build, so publishing is quick and minimizes network traffic.
When your application goes global you want your CHM File to be ready. In HelpStudio you can work with multiple locales within a single project, avoiding the traditional "localization drift" problem when trying to maintain multiple translations of the same CHM file. One challenge that anyone will face when attempting to create CHM files is providing the kind of rich content features that users of modern help systems expect, whilst not requiring a large investment of time and effort in creating and maintaining such content.
HelpStudio is unique in making it genuinely quick and easy to include and adapt over time rich content features by providing a customizable and extendable set of re-usable Content Widgets.
In a traditional authoring tool you would need to include a complex mix of Html and Javascript in order to provide this kind of dynamic feature.
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