WinAPI function to start help file

Question

when you open help in e.g. Windows Notepad (Help->Help Topics) no child process is started (such as hh.exe), which IMO means there is a WinAPI function called to do the job.

I searched MSDN for a while but came up with nothing.

what is this function?

Answer 1

Would this help? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1226876/how-can-i-open-a-help-file-chm-or-so-from-my-gui-developed-in-vc-2008

There are several useful solutions in that discussion.

Answer 2

Use the function HtmlHelp