Hello again !!
I thought there was, in Visual Studio 2005, an integrated feature for creating and managing the help files.
I am using Visual C# to create an application which now needs to have its own help system... (.chm files or html files...)
What are the best practices in terms of help file creation considering the features that Visual Studio 2005 may have in this field
Thanks !
Creating help files !
jsh02_nova
Not sure what features VS 2005 has for it. Im still working with VS 2003. Anyway to create a help system is not really hard. I just implemented this in a system.
Ik works like this, i have one class named HelpTool. Within this class there is one static method with a name ShowHelp(int id);
In the HelpTool class i have constant integers with a value, like 201 = show help for adding a customer.
When you implement this, u only have to say: HelpTool.ShowHelp(HelpTool.CustomerAdd); ( public const int CustomerAdd = 201; )
In ShowHelp it calls to a private static function that looks up the help page ( in html format ). Then in this private function i lookup the html page with 201 as a name (without the .html). It opens and voila, a help page.
I did not dig deeper into the .chm files. Maybe i should but i find this an effective solution.
Greets!