I've seen a number of places recently that offer online HTML API documentation and also offer downloadable (usually .chm) help files. I really love using .chm help files, mainly because of the index tree on the left. What are the best tools for creating those types of files? Is there something that would allow me to have a bunch of HT...
At work we use Sandcastle for creation of help files. I have been using SandCastleGUI for some time and I'm looking for a way to create additional pages in the help file. These pages are written in XML format called MAML. The only problem is that I couldn't find any decent editor for these file format. I'm looking for a WYSIWYG editor...
Is there a free software for creating windows help files for your program? I would like something that allows an output of both CHM and HTML files. ...
Is there a way to change the context sensitive help in Visual Studio so that it will only search against the text under the caret instead of a complilation error in your code? More info: After you compile and receive a compilation error(underlined), placing the caret within the underlined text and pressing F1 will take you to the Compli...
I am facing the fun task of creating a Help File for a large project. I have discarded CHM files due to the constraints and are now looking into HTML based files but I am still undecided on the format.... There are 3 areas I'm focusing on: Reusability of sections (many pages can refer to one text) Since some sections will be used more ...
I want to see about logging events from a Delphi 5 application to the Windows log, and from another post here I see that I can use the TEventLogger class to do this. However, I can't find any documentation on the syntax of the TEventLogger.LogMessage procedure, so I don't know what all the parameters mean, how to use them, or even what ...
I can export a class diagram as an image from Visual Studio by right-clicking on the surface and choosing "Export Diagram as Image..." Is there a way to do this through command line? I'd like to be able to generate all of my class diagrams as images so I can include it in the .chm I am building w/ Sandcastle. ...
I am writing an application in Visual Studio 2008. I have a help file that I want to be included in the output of my project. I want the most recent version of my help file to stay in a folder that is not my visual studio project directory. For example C:/Helpfiles. I want to include this file in my Visual studio project so that when I ...
I am trying to get a chm file to open to a specific topic using c# code. I have tried using Help.ShowHelp(this, path, HelpNavigator.Topic, "TopicTitle"); but it doesn't find the page. I must not be keying in the Topic title correctly. Is there a way that I can programatically retrieve all of the topics from a chm file so that I can ...
I am developing an Outlook add-in and I want to create a help file for it. Currently I am using CHM file. Is there a tool to create help file like Microsoft office's? If not, how can I create a similar one? ...
I've made class diagrams for my projects in Visual Studio 2008 Team System and I want to embed these diagrams in my Sandcastle .chm file. I keep finding references to the Drawbridge component for Sandcastle but they apparently dealt with an older version of Sandcastle; not surprising since it looks like Drawbridge was last updated in 20...
I need to write a help file for a WinForms app in Visual Studio 2010. Ideally, I'd like to use a tool that integrates with Visual Studio, rather than a totally separate tool. In the past I've used HTML Help Workshop, but this is ancient, and I recall it was a little funky to use. I also know there was a tool built into the Visual Studi...
Hi. I'm implementing a help system for my app. Its written in C and Gtk+. Help is divided on books. Each book is just a bunch of HTML pages with resource. The problem I've encountered is that each book is ~30M (using WebKit Gtk port to display it). After zipping it becomes ~7M, but opening document becomes extremely slow :( So I'm think...
I'm developing a WinForm app in c# 4.0 and would like other (non-developer) colleagues to contribute writing a context sensitive end-user helpfile. First I thought I could use "HTML Help Workshop" from Microsoft, but it seems outdated (Vista and Windows 7 not supported). Then I've looked at Sandcastle, but the documentation is lacking an...