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how to call help?

How do you actually get a help.chm file to open on top of
a form that called it? I have a html compile help file
that works if I dbl click it, but doesn't work witj
showhelp. Any help here? TIA, Patrick

Nov 20 '05 #1
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Are you using the HelpProvider control on your form?

Check that out.

Good luck
Brian W
"patrick" <ps****@nospam.eatel.net> wrote in message
news:02****************************@phx.gbl...
How do you actually get a help.chm file to open on top of
a form that called it? I have a html compile help file
that works if I dbl click it, but doesn't work witj
showhelp. Any help here? TIA, Patrick

Nov 20 '05 #2

I thought that was just for context sensitive help and
popup help. I will look into it, Thanks a lot.
patrick
-----Original Message-----
Are you using the HelpProvider control on your form?

Check that out.

Good luck
Brian W
"patrick" <ps****@nospam.eatel.net> wrote in message
news:02****************************@phx.gbl...
How do you actually get a help.chm file to open on top of a form that called it? I have a html compile help file
that works if I dbl click it, but doesn't work witj
showhelp. Any help here? TIA, Patrick

.

Nov 20 '05 #3
* <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> scripsit:
I thought that was just for context sensitive help and
popup help. I will look into it, Thanks a lot.


HelpProvider is context sensivite...

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>
Nov 20 '05 #4

That control, has a small F1 right beside it. That is not
the sort of help I want to do. Anyway, yes I tried it. No
good.

-----Original Message-----
Are you using the HelpProvider control on your form?

Check that out.

Good luck
Brian W
"patrick" <ps****@nospam.eatel.net> wrote in message
news:02****************************@phx.gbl...
How do you actually get a help.chm file to open on top of a form that called it? I have a html compile help file
that works if I dbl click it, but doesn't work witj
showhelp. Any help here? TIA, Patrick

.

Nov 20 '05 #5

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