Building an html help file

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. You can handle the FormClosing event or the ApplicationExit event. This tells me that the names 'Resources' and 'Process' does not exist in the current context. I have my html file in 'Resources', now I just want to open it.

You need to import the namespace for Process. At the top of your code, add using System. Diagnostics; — keyboardP. This solved the Process issue. Should I add something similar to Resources? In your code example are you writing to the html file? I just want to read a given file Show 2 more comments. Its a lot more easier But for your case. Start "helpname. Navigate uri ;. AsfK AsfK 2, 3 3 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 58 58 bronze badges.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Properties affected: SandcastleProject. SandcastlePath SandcastleProject. WorkingPath DocumentAssembly. AssemblyPath DocumentAssembly. XmlCommentsPath ContentItem.

SourcePath DependencyItem. DependencyPath The OutputPath property is still a string. It is now possible to resolve project option values and shared content items in additional content files.

Fixed a bug in the code to resolve links to namespace content from additional content that caused it to add too many relative path parts to the URLs. Fixed a bug that caused it to miss the default page setting if the page was associated with a folder.

Also fixed a bug that caused it to ignore the page if it was associated with a folder and it was the only file in the folder. Fixed a bug in the code colorizer caused by the description for the collapsed region not being HTML encoded. Also fixed up the definitions so that it doesn't colorize preprocessor text within quotes and comments and handles XML attribute names containing colons. The code colorizer now renders a "Copy" icon and text to the right of each title line on the code blocks and allows you to copy the code to the clipboard.

The code is copied as plain text without the highlighting and line numbers if used. Default titles are also used on code block that do not have a title.

The default title is based on the language specified. Generic namespace. The PresentationStyle property now uses a type converter that allows you to select any folder under the. This allows you to create custom versions of the Prototype and VS styles using different names and select them for use from within a help file builder project. The build process now tries to delete the help file first if it exists so that it stops immediately if the help file is open and cannot be overwritten.

Made the file extension checks case-insensitive when adding assemblies and comments files to the project and when examining additional content files during the build. When documenting internals, private fields backing events are now removed as they can never be documented with comments.

Removed extraneous paragraph tags from the formatted footer replacement tag values. Modified the comments shared content item so that the e-mail link in the page footers now appends the current topic's title to the help file's title for the e-mail's subject.

Added a FooterText property to the project that lets you add additional text to the footer of each page without having to modify the shared content file. The text is inserted at the start of the footer shared content item. The post-transform component now turns off all file attributes when copying the highlighter and logo files so that they can be deleted at the end of the build when CleanIntermediates is set to true.

Added placement and alignment attributes to the logoFile element of the post-transform component. This allows the logo to be placed to the left, right, or above the topic title. When placed above the topic title, it can be aligned to the left or right or centered. Moved the version information text to the end of the location information shared content items. The best part is that it 'auto-magically' mines your webpage or app page and starts the basic construction of the help for you.

The ROI for us was about 1 day. HelpNDoc is free for personal use. It is declarative, earning it further kudos. DocBook allows you to identify to it what pictures are screenshots, what strings of words are actually commands, and so forth.

Which yes, actually means it is a bonafide part of the semantic web. Because of this, you can use an XPath expression to search for all the screenshots, all the commands, and so forth. Once you have worked out which XPath search string returns the content you want, you can write a little XSLT stylesheet yourself or with someone else's help.

Whatever you like. DocBook files can be automatically converted into many file formats besides the one used in Microsoft Windows WinHelp files. See the docbook. It is a long list of supported file formats, so brace yourself for a pleasant surprise! If you already have a structured XML text editor, you might want to use that. The former is a commercial product and the latter is free, open source software. Doxygen , while originally meant to produce code documentation can be made quite easily to produce any kind of help.

I use it on Windows 7 without any problem. What I like most is its ability to integrate SHG files into the helpfile. A picture is worth a thousand words so I tend to use screen images where I capture buttons, text boxes or whatever.

The user can see that screen and then just click of the display they want more information on an "BOOM!