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Q: creating help pages

Hello,
I have an asp.net C# application and have many pages and each page has many
buttons. So I would like to have an help button and if user click it should
open another window and give help to the related page. How should I do that.
I am looking something like windows help file, once related subject is
display, user should be able to search other subjects. Is it possible
inasp.net and is there any example that I can integrate into my application.
Thanks,

Nov 19 '05 #1
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I still use the HTML Help 1.4 SDK
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...pDownloads.asp to create a .chm file.

I then allow the user to download that .chm file from the web to a specific
folder on their PC once.

Every help button on the form would call a Javascript function passing a
specific category to view to showHelp function of the window object of the
browser, e.g.:
window.showHelp ("c:\\Help\\MyH elpCatalog.chm: :/" + CateogryName + ".htm")

There is also the new Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit which, I
believe, is not officially supported yet by Microsoft (?). There is another
newsgroup microsoft.publi c.vstudio.helpa uthoring for this Integration kit.

HTH,
Phillip Williams
http://www.societopia.net
http://www.webswapp.com
"JIM.H." wrote:
Hello,
I have an asp.net C# application and have many pages and each page has many
buttons. So I would like to have an help button and if user click it should
open another window and give help to the related page. How should I do that.
I am looking something like windows help file, once related subject is
display, user should be able to search other subjects. Is it possible
inasp.net and is there any example that I can integrate into my application.
Thanks,

Nov 19 '05 #2
Hi Phillip,

I may go with Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit, I was searching
Google it seems it is only for windows application, not for ASP.Net, is that
the case? Is there any C# ASP.Net example I can integrate into my application?

Thanks,
"Phillip Williams" wrote:
I still use the HTML Help 1.4 SDK
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...pDownloads.asp to create a .chm file.

I then allow the user to download that .chm file from the web to a specific
folder on their PC once.

Every help button on the form would call a Javascript function passing a
specific category to view to showHelp function of the window object of the
browser, e.g.:
window.showHelp ("c:\\Help\\MyH elpCatalog.chm: :/" + CateogryName + ".htm")

There is also the new Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit which, I
believe, is not officially supported yet by Microsoft (?). There is another
newsgroup microsoft.publi c.vstudio.helpa uthoring for this Integration kit.

HTH,
Phillip Williams
http://www.societopia.net
http://www.webswapp.com
"JIM.H." wrote:
Hello,
I have an asp.net C# application and have many pages and each page has many
buttons. So I would like to have an help button and if user click it should
open another window and give help to the related page. How should I do that.
I am looking something like windows help file, once related subject is
display, user should be able to search other subjects. Is it possible
inasp.net and is there any example that I can integrate into my application.
Thanks,

Nov 19 '05 #3

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