Help documents that compile with app

[Smokey Grindel]

In MCF apps we get a help section of our application solution which holds
HTML documents and the Help Workshop HPP files that compile every time you
build your app... is there anyway to do this in C#? I tried messing with the
HHC.EXE HTML HelpWorkshop compiler and post build events but didnt get where
I wanted to do... basically I want to have a folder in my project that holds
all the help workshop html files, and index files then use HHC.exe (the help
compiler) to compile it at build then copy the resulting CHM (help document)
file to the applications build output folder... anyone every try this or
know of any sources of information for it? thanks!

[Rad [Visual C# MVP]]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:01:14 -0400, Smokey Grindel wrote:

In MCF apps we get a help section of our application solution which holds
HTML documents and the Help Workshop HPP files that compile every time you
build your app... is there anyway to do this in C#? I tried messing with the
HHC.EXE HTML HelpWorkshop compiler and post build events but didnt get where
I wanted to do... basically I want to have a folder in my project that holds
all the help workshop html files, and index files then use HHC.exe (the help
compiler) to compile it at build then copy the resulting CHM (help document)
file to the applications build output folder... anyone every try this or
know of any sources of information for it? thanks!

Since HHC is a command line exe you should be able to automate its
execution using a build tool like MsBuild or NANT
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[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:01:14 -0700, Smokey Grindel <no****@nospam.com>
wrote:

In MCF apps we get a help section of our application solution which holds
HTML documents and the Help Workshop HPP files that compile every time
you
build your app... is there anyway to do this in C#?

Are your help files actually dependent on something in your C# project?

I would guess, but have no first-hand experience, that you can in fact set
up some custom build steps that would do the compile for you. However, if
you can just use the HTML Help Workshop to do the compile explicitly, that
would simplify things. Then all you have to do is add the output CHM file
to your project as a "copy to build folder" item, which is simple and
doesn't require messing with the custom build stuff.

Sorry I don't have anything more useful than that. It does seem to me
that if you have a working command line that does the compilation you
want, it should be simple enough to include that as a custom build command
in your project. But I have no particular insight as to why it isn't
working in your case.

Pete