Creating Documentation/Help Files

[Coleen]

Hi All :-)

I'm not sure where to post this, but my organization is looking for a good software application that is not terribly expensive that allows you to create documentationand help files and is able to be integrated into a .Net application. Any suggestions? Any help, suggestions, links would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Coleen

[Kevin Spencer]

Hi Coleen,

Check out SandCastle - It's free, and it's what Microsoft uses:

http://www.sandcastledocs.com/Wiki%20Pages/Home.aspx

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"Coleen" <co**********@yahoo.comwrote in message
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Hi All :-)

I'm not sure where to post this, but my organization is looking for a good
software application that is not terribly expensive that allows you to
create documentationand help files and is able to be integrated into a .Net
application. Any suggestions? Any help, suggestions, links would be
greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Coleen

[Rad [Visual C# MVP]]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:32:37 -0800, Coleen wrote:

Hi All :-)

I'm not sure where to post this, but my organization is looking for a good software application that is not terribly expensive that allows you to create documentationand help files and is able to be integrated into a .Net application. Any suggestions? Any help, suggestions, links would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Coleen

What sort of documentation? MSDN type documentation for .NET libraries or
help files?

For the former, as has been suggested, SandCastle is the tool for you.

For the latter you could use HTML help and word (though it's quite the
headache to put the appropriate headers and footers) or some off the shelf
cheap tool like FAR http://www.helpware.net/FAR/
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[Coleen]

Thanks for the links! What we want to do is be able to document the application as we write it AND create help files for the users as we create documentation and develop the application. So, we really want something that can have change control for the documentation, but will integrate into our .Net application for use as a help file. We have been looking at stuff like Flare, or what we used to have was Robohelp, but it is no longer supported. Is there one software application that does all of the above? That is, it will allow us to create the programmer's documentation, the users documentation and help files, and integrate the help files into the .Net application? Thanks so much for all of your help and suggestions!

Coleen
"Coleen" <co**********@yahoo.comwrote in message news:uf**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
Hi All :-)

I'm not sure where to post this, but my organization is looking for a good software application that is not terribly expensive that allows you to create documentationand help files and is able to be integrated into a .Net application. Any suggestions? Any help, suggestions, links would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Coleen

[John Vottero]

You could take a look at:

http://www.innovasys.com

We just bought their tools but, I'm still just a beginner.
"Coleen" <co**********@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
Thanks for the links! What we want to do is be able to document the
application as we write it AND create help files for the users as we create
documentation and develop the application. So, we really want something
that can have change control for the documentation, but will integrate into
our .Net application for use as a help file. We have been looking at stuff
like Flare, or what we used to have was Robohelp, but it is no longer
supported. Is there one software application that does all of the above?
That is, it will allow us to create the programmer's documentation, the
users documentation and help files, and integrate the help files into the
..Net application? Thanks so much for all of your help and suggestions!

Coleen
"Coleen" <co**********@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:uf**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
Hi All :-)

I'm not sure where to post this, but my organization is looking for a good
software application that is not terribly expensive that allows you to
create documentationand help files and is able to be integrated into a .Net
application. Any suggestions? Any help, suggestions, links would be
greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Coleen