html-help

Toolbar and treeview Icons missing when displaying CHM file using HH API

Just encountered an interesting problem. I have a CHM file. If I display it using Process.Start it displays correctly. If however I launch it using the HH API it displays without any icons in the toolbar and treeview; the main content, including graphics, displays correctly. Here's what it looks like - with a few article titles scribble...

Good application (not code) documentation tools outputting HTML Help files?

I need to document an application -- not the underlying source code. (I use Doxygen for the internal source code documentation.) What are good documentation tools for producing HTML Help files? I know about the HTML Help Workshop, but I'm not very good at editing HTML files. I was hoping for something more integrated with a WYSIWYG...

Web-Based User Help System for Silverlight

I've been googling and binging all morning to find a suitable solution for web-based user help. We've got Sandcastle for dev help, but I'm wondering what people are using for user help for a Silverlight project? I'm interested in options from rolling our own to a comprehensive help doc system. (And is HTML Help dead? the GUI still has...

Win32: HtmlHelp doesn't work from a network share. What's the alternative?

Since 2005, when Microsoft prevented HtmlHelp functioning off a network share, e.g.: \\appserver\tos\PointScanner.exe \\appserver\tos\PointScanner.chm What are we supposed to do instead? (Given that the application is not installed locally.) To rephrase: What is Microsoft's intended, supported, out-of-the-box, help solution? ...