C# and help.chm

[Andrew Seaford]

I have created a compressed html help file (.chm file) and I wish to open
the file when I click on the help button in my program. I am writing the
program in C# using visual studio dot net, when I was writing VB programs I
used to use the command shell "hello.exe" to execute a second program, I
think im looking for a similar command.



Thank you for your time



Andrew Seaford

***@vaporise.net

[Pete Lees]

Andrew,

Post by Andrew Seaford
I have created a compressed html help file (.chm file) and I wish to open
the file when I click on the help button in my program. I am writing the
program in C# using visual studio dot net

For information on how to connect HTML Help files to .NET
applications, see the resources listed here:

http://www.mshelpwiki.com/index.php?page=HTMLHelpArticles

I'd particularly recommend:

http://helpware.net/mshelp2/demo2/h1xNET.htm

I believe you'd normally use the Help.ShowHelp method to call help
from the Help menu, and HelpProvider components to display
context-sensitive help. (Or you could use unmanaged code to call the
HTML Help API. See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317406.)

By the way, the best newsgroup for Help-related questions is
microsoft.public.helpauthoring:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.helpauthoring

--
Pete (Microsoft Help MVP)