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Dear All

Please tell me how to assosiate help files with my Vb.net
Project.

Regards

Sudheer

Jul 21 '05 #1
2 6322
you can do this by the given example
''**************************************
Imports System
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Windows.Forms

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Private helpfile As String = "mspaint.chm"
Private WithEvents showIndex As
System.Windows.Forms.Button
Private WithEvents showHelp As
System.Windows.Forms.Button
Private WithEvents label1 As System.Windows.Forms.Label
Private WithEvents navigatorCombo As
System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
Private WithEvents showKeyword As
System.Windows.Forms.Button
Private WithEvents keyword As
System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Private WithEvents label2 As System.Windows.Forms.Label
Private WithEvents label3 As System.Windows.Forms.Label
Private WithEvents parameterTextBox As
System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

<STAThread()> _
Shared Sub Main()
Application.Run(New Form1)
End Sub 'Main

Public Sub New()
Me.showIndex = New System.Windows.Forms.Button
Me.showHelp = New System.Windows.Forms.Button
Me.navigatorCombo = New
System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
Me.label1 = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
Me.showKeyword = New System.Windows.Forms.Button
Me.keyword = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Me.label2 = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
Me.label3 = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
Me.parameterTextBox = New
System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

' Help Navigator Label
Me.label1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(112,
64)
Me.label1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(168, 16)
Me.label1.Text = "Help Navigator:"

' Keyword Label
Me.label2.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(120,
184)
Me.label2.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(100, 16)
Me.label2.Text = "Keyword:"

' Parameter Label
Me.label3.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(112,
120)
Me.label3.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(168, 16)
Me.label3.Text = "Parameter:"

' Show Index Button
Me.showIndex.Location = New System.Drawing.Point
(16, 16)
Me.showIndex.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(264,
32)
Me.showIndex.TabIndex = 0
Me.showIndex.Text = "Show Help Index"

' Show Help Button
Me.showHelp.Location = New System.Drawing.Point
(16, 80)
Me.showHelp.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(80, 80)
Me.showHelp.TabIndex = 1
Me.showHelp.Text = "Show Help"

' Show Keyword Button
Me.showKeyword.Location = New System.Drawing.Point
(16, 192)
Me.showKeyword.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(88,
32)
Me.showKeyword.TabIndex = 4
Me.showKeyword.Text = "Show Keyword"

' Help Navigator Combo
'
Me.navigatorCombo.DropDownStyle =
System.Windows.Forms.ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList
Me.navigatorCombo.Location = New
System.Drawing.Point(112, 80)
Me.navigatorCombo.Size = New System.Drawing.Size
(168, 21)
Me.navigatorCombo.TabIndex = 2

' Keyword TextBox
Me.keyword.Location = New System.Drawing.Point
(120, 200)
Me.keyword.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(160, 20)
Me.keyword.TabIndex = 5
Me.keyword.Text = ""
'
' Parameter TextBox
'
Me.parameterTextBox.Location = New
System.Drawing.Point(112, 136)
Me.parameterTextBox.Size = New System.Drawing.Size
(168, 20)
Me.parameterTextBox.TabIndex = 8
Me.parameterTextBox.Text = ""

' Set up how the form should be displayed and add
the controls to the form.
Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(292, 266)
Me.Controls.AddRange(New
System.Windows.Forms.Control() {Me.parameterTextBox, _
Me.label3, Me.label2,
Me.keyword, Me.showKeyword, _
Me.label1,
Me.navigatorCombo, Me.showHelp, Me.showIndex})
Me.FormBorderStyle =
System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.FixedDialog
Me.Text = "Help App"

' Load the various values of the HelpNavigator
enumeration
' into the combo box.
Dim converter As TypeConverter
converter = TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(GetType
(HelpNavigator))

Dim value As Object
For Each value In converter.GetStandardValues()
navigatorCombo.Items.Add(value)
Next value
End Sub 'New

Private Sub showIndex_Click(ByVal sender As Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles showIndex.Click
' Display the index for the Help file.
Help.ShowHelpIndex(Me, helpfile)
End Sub 'showIndex_Click
Private Sub showHelp_Click(ByVal sender As Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles showHelp.Click
' Display Help using the Help navigator enumeration
' that is selected in the combo box. Some
enumeration
' values make use of an extra parameter, which can
' be passed in through the Parameter text box.
Dim navigator As HelpNavigator =
HelpNavigator.TableOfContents
If Not (navigatorCombo.SelectedItem Is Nothing)
Then
navigator = CType(navigatorCombo.SelectedItem,
HelpNavigator)
End If
Help.ShowHelp(Me, helpfile, navigator,
parameterTextBox.Text)
End Sub 'showHelp_Click
Private Sub showKeyword_Click(ByVal sender As Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles showKeyword.Click
' Display Help using the provided keyword.
Help.ShowHelp(Me, helpfile, keyword.Text)
End Sub 'showKeyword_Click
End Class 'Form1

''**************************************

cheers

Sanjeev Azad

CoreBrix
-----Original Message-----
Dear All

Please tell me how to assosiate help files with my Vb.netProject.

Regards

Sudheer

.

Jul 21 '05 #2
Sudheer,
Please tell me how to assosiate help files with my Vb.net Project.


These resources should help:

http://helpware.net/mshelp2/demo2/h1xNET.htm
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...pplication.asp

--
Pete (Microsoft Help MVP)
Jul 21 '05 #3

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