Find centralized, trusted content and collaborate around the technologies you use most. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I need to write a help file for a WinForms app in Visual Studio Ideally, I'd like to use a tool that integrates with Visual Studio, rather than a totally separate tool. Although, it appears that DocProject doesn't quite support VS yet. In most shops, the help is authored by professional writers that don't have any use for Visual Studio in their day-to-day activities.
Third party authoring tools like RoboHelp is their preferred weapon of choice. There is no version available that integrates with VS and judging from a forum post they have no intention of releasing one. Their Document X! The eval version is available for download from here.
Here is the link to Sandscastle. A more feature-rich help generator that integrates with Visual Studio and generates multiple help formats is VSDocMan. Extremely useful. Rest is all still very primitive when it comes to If the audience for your help file is the user of the application html help 2 is not usable, you will still need to create a chm file.
The tool which can do this for your from your winforms application is Help Generator for Visual Studio , which takes away a lot of work in preparing the help and linking it to the forms. Probably doesn't integrate with VS but I remember using RoboHelp back around '97 and it was ok:ish then so if I needed to write helpfiles now I'd probably give that another look since it seems like it's still around here.
Fairly expensive though it seems but if you've got some Adobe licenses which isn't totally unsual for a development shop for some other reason maybe you've already got this? Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
The pop-up will appear the next time the user presses F1 on the control. This method is used to override the flag that determines whether the Help for a control will be displayed or not. Compiled Help files provide table of contents, index, search, and keyword links in pages. Shortcuts work only in compiled Help files. This is another class that has very little documentation. NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code ". Regardless, note that it is found in the System.
Forms namespace, and used to explicitly display Help files from your code. I learnt a very interesting thing about this method. It will open just about any URL you provide to it. The URL can point to any local or remote resource. It was a pleasant surprise to know that it could even run an EXE file. Very interesting indeed! In overloaded versions that require extra parameters, pass in Nothing and you will infer that those parameter values are ignored, or at least they don't interfere with running the file.
Pop-up help involves providing context-sensitive information for a control or a form. The help message or information is embedded in your code. The context-specific pop-up help message will be displayed when a user presses F1 on the control that has the focus. Once the HelpProvider component has been added to the Form , we can set the HelpString for every control on the form we intend to provide Help.
Depending upon the number of HelpProvider components you have made use of, you will find an equal number of HelpString properties for very control, pertaining to each HelpProvider instance.
Set the value of the HelpString property of the HelpProvider you want to use to provide pop-up help to a useful message for each control. Make sure the ShowHelp property pertaining to the same HelpProvider instance is set to true for the concerned controls. It would be advisable to use a single HelpProvider to provide pop-up help on the same form just to make maintenance a lot easier. Once these two properties are set at design time, our work is done! None of the other newly available properties need to be configured.
The same design-time configuration can be done by code as well. However, the properties that we set at design-time for each control using the Properties window are not available at runtime. ShowPopUp method as illustrated below. The Help button appears with '? You can enable this button for your form by setting its boolean HelpButton property to True. The catch in using this button in your forms is that you have to do away with the Maximize and Minimize boxes in the title bar.
Clicking the Help button at runtime will change your cursor to show "? With the new cursor displayed, click on the field for which you may have set the HelpString property and the pop-up Help should now get displayed.
Every control, including the form, raises its own HelpRequested event in response to a user pressing the F1 button.
We are rightly advised to do our Help invocation implementation here if we want to exercise greater control over the process. However, it is possible to respond to a user's help request from the KeyDown or one of the other key-related events as well, simply by screening for the KeyCode value and performing the necessary action if it evaluates to the F1 button.
Note that the HelpRequested event will fire regardless after key-based events. At design-time, you can hard code the path to your help resource in the HelpNamespace property of the HelpProvider component. This much will suffice to get the page to display in your default browser when the user presses F1.
You don't really have to change any other properties. To use the same HelpProvider component to display different web pages for different contexts, you have to programmatically change the HelpNamespace property value to the appropriate Help resource.
You can do the change in the HelpRequested event. It is also easy to open your help web page in response to other user events, like say a click event. Take a look below:. Just in case, you wish to use the System. Help class for the same, then we have to do something like this Draw page , New PointF 10 , result. MeasureString currentDate g. Brush , New PointF g. TimesRoman , 10 element. Draw page , New RectangleF 10 , result.
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