Tools for Creating Help Files for a .Net Application

[Charles Law]

There appear to be a myriad of tools for creating help files for .NET
applications.

What do people use, and what is the preferred help file format?

In the past I have used HDK, which integrates with Word. It worked quite
well, and produced a nice style of help file, but the process could
sometimes be a bit convoluted. My own preference is for anything integrated
with the development environment (everything in one place), but no doubt
there are some excellent examples of stand-alone products.

Any suggestions welcome.

TIA

Charles

[Patrick Steele [MVP]]

In article <O6**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, bl***@nowhere.com
says...

What do people use, and what is the preferred help file format?

For SDK documentation, I use VB.DOC (http://vb-doc.sourceforge.net/) and
nDoc (http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/)

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Patrick Steele
Microsoft .NET MVP
http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele

[Charles Law]

Hi Patrick

Thanks for the response. I was really thinking of user guide type help,
rather than code documentation. Do you have a preferred tool for that?

Charles
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In article <O6**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, bl***@nowhere.com
says...

What do people use, and what is the preferred help file format?

For SDK documentation, I use VB.DOC (http://vb-doc.sourceforge.net/) and
nDoc (http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/)

--
Patrick Steele
Microsoft .NET MVP
http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele

[Patrick Steele [MVP]]

In article <#p**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, bl***@nowhere.com
says...

Thanks for the response. I was really thinking of user guide type help,
rather than code documentation. Do you have a preferred tool for that?

Sorry, no. It's not something I need to do right now.

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Patrick Steele
Microsoft .NET MVP
http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele