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+1  Q: 

what help authoring tools do you use

I am looking for recommendations for help authoring tools. Something that would preferably integrate with vs2008. Free would nice!

I am giving HelpMaker a shot...It's free! But I am open to suggestions

+2  A: 

I like Sandcastle

Eric J.  2009-08-23 23:28:03
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make sure you grab sandcastle help file builder as well to make it easy to configure.

Bluephlame  2009-08-23 23:36:21
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If you write your documentation in DocBook, then with some (all?) frontends, you can generate HTML help files as well as PDFs or plain web pages. See also this question/answer.

Mark Rushakoff  2009-08-24 00:58:03

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