Back in the old days, Help was not trivial but possible: generate some funky .rtf file with special tags, run it through a compiler, and you got a WinHelp file (.hlp) that actually works really well. Then, Microsoft decided that WinHelp was not hip and cool anymore and switched to CHM, up to the point they actually axed WinHelp from Vis...
Is there a reliable way to detect whether or not WinHelp is installed on Windows Vista or newer versions of Windows? If possible, I'd like a solution that's not specific to any particular version of Windows. I've posted this question to other message boards and got back answers regarding the size of Winhlp32.exe before and after install...
It would appear that CHM help files are no longer the help file format of choice. WinHelp - obsolete HtmlHelp (CHM) - not supported on Vista by default - does not work well on a network share Help 2 (HXS) - I understand this is used in VS2005+ for displaying help Web Based - Could be hard to manage for multiple versions What he...
I am saddled with WinHelp format (.hlp) files and need to invoke them from a .NET 3.5 DLL. I can get the file to launch but am unable to get either TopicId or Topic to work. The file always opens to the "Getting Started" topic. ...