Software Recommendations for the New Help System ??

Boopipi

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Apr 4, 2010, 9:19:38 PM4/4/10

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As you all know, the "HTML Help Workshop" is rather dated. However there
doesn't seem to be a "help workshop" program for the new Help system that
has replaced it, unless I buy the entire Visual Studio Suite.

I only need to make one small help file (not an entire application). What
software can you recommend ?

Thanks

Peter

Rob Chandler [MVP]

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Apr 5, 2010, 7:55:27 AM4/5/10

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Hi Peter

HTML Help (.chm) is still all we have for application help.

VS 2002/2003/2005/2008 uses MS Help 2 (not available outside VS).
VS 2010 now has MS Help Viewer 1.0 (but again that's only for VS help).

Rob

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Boopipi

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Apr 5, 2010, 3:56:41 PM4/5/10

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I was afraid you'd say that.

How about Visual Studio Lite ? Does any version of "VS lite" contain the
"workshop" for the Help 2. I wasn't able to find any such version.

Do you know if Microsoft has any plans to make a separately downloadable
"Help 2 workshop" in the future ?

Thanks,

Peter

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"Rob Chandler [MVP]" <sup...@nospam.helpware.net> wrote in message
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> Hi Peter
>
> HTML Help (.chm) is still all we have for application help.
>
> VS 2002/2003/2005/2008 uses MS Help 2 (not available outside VS).
> VS 2010 now has MS Help Viewer 1.0 (but again that's only for VS help).
>
> Rob
>
>
> "Boopipi" <NotAvailable@Reply_In_Newsgroup.com> wrote

>> As you all know, the "HTML Help Workshop" is rather dated. However there
>> doesn't seem to be a "help workshop" program for the new Help system that
>> has replaced it, unless I buy the entire Visual Studio Suite.
>>

>> I only need to make one small help file (not an entire application), so
>> buying the entire Visual Studio suite would be overkill. What software

Rob Chandler [MVP]

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Apr 6, 2010, 3:54:04 AM4/6/10

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Hi Peter

VS 2002/2003/2005/2008

The Help SDK \ workshop \ Help Studio light is a separate download.

http://helpware.net/mshelp2/vs8/vs8help.htm
http://helpware.net/mshelp2/h20.htm

VS 2010 (to be release 10am PDT, 12th April) has a new Help viewer
http://mshcmigrate.helpmvp.com/

Rob

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Rob Cavicchio

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Apr 10, 2010, 1:15:33 PM4/10/10

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To expand on that, the Help compiler for the 2002-2008 versions is in the VS
SDK, which itself is free, but only works with the paid versions of Visual
Studio (not VS Lite).

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Rob Chandler [MVP]

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Apr 11, 2010, 2:23:29 AM4/11/10

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Thanks Rob. My 2am Answer wasn't at all clear. So they restict the
VS Express (Lite) version -- I don't think VS Express supports 3rd party
components either does it?

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Rob Cavicchio

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Apr 17, 2010, 12:02:22 PM4/17/10

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I don't know for sure, but that seems like a reasonable assumption.

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