HTML Help 1.x Articles

HTML Help Articles, whitepapers, tutorials, etc.

General Articles

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Getting Started

• HelpCentre: Char James-Tanny's HTML Help Workshop Tutorial
• HelpThinkPress: Deploying HTML Help - Includes Internet Explorer silent installation.
• HelpCentre: HTML Help System Requirements
• HelpPress: HH error message reference - Contains HH error reference + bug list
• Companion Website to Jeannine Klein's Book, Building Enhanced HTML Help with DHTML & CSS
• Microsoft: Design Specifications and Guidelines - User Assistance
• Help-Info.de: Converting WinHelp (HLP) to HTMLHelp (CHM)

Context IDs & Mapping

• Helpware.net: HH Context Help Ids
• HelpCentre: Mapping Context Integers
• Helpware.net: Creating Whats' This Help
• Microsoft: How to Prepare HTML Help Files for Context-Sensitive Help
• HHPmod - HTMLHelp tool to recover original topic IDs in converted Winhelp project

Merged Help

• Helpware.net: Merged Help/Document Sets

Microsoft Office

• HelpCentre: Using HTML Help with Microsoft Access
• Help-Info.de: Providing Help in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - Excel
• Microsoft: Adding Online Help to your Microsoft Office Solution
• Microsoft: Creating Your Own Help Topics
• Macromedia: Sample Access Application and Help File
• Microsoft: How to Create Context-Sensitive HTML Help Files (XP)
• Microsoft: How to Create Context-Sensitive HTML Help Files (2000)
• Microsoft: How to Start a Custom Help File in a Run-Time Solution
• Microsoft: Custom Help File Is Displayed in Access Help Window
• Indigoware: How to Add Context-Sensitive Help to Access VBA Applications
• Indigoware: How to Add Context-Sensitive Help to Excel VBA Applications

Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

• Microsoft: Adding HTML Help Support

HH Programming Articles

General

• Helpware.net: HH_CLOSE_ALL Bug and HH_INITIALIZE
• Helpware.net: Info on HH_GET_LAST_ERROR
• Microsoft: Sandcastle - Documentation Compilers For Managed Class Libraries (CTP)

Microsoft VB

• [http://helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm#VBandHH
• HelpThinkPress: VB/VBS Programming the HH 1.x API
• HelpCentre: Creating "What's This?" Topics
• HelpCentre: Visual Basic 5/6 Class Module
• HelpCentre: HTML Help VB/6 Sample Application
• HelpCentre: HTML Help Training Cards for VB5/6
• ShadowMountainTech: Various Articles
• Macromedia: Sample VB Application and Help File
• Microsoft: How to Use HTML Help from Visual Basic 6.0
• Microsoft: How to Create Context-Sensitive HTML Help in a Visual Basic App
• Microsoft: How to Use HTML Help API in a Visual Basic Application
• Microsoft: How to Add HTML Help to a Visual Basic 6.0 Application Wizard Application
• Microsoft: How to Use HTML Help Text Popup Windows in a VBasic Program
• Indigoware: How to Add Context-Sensitive Help to Visual Basic 6 Applications

Microsoft MFC/C++

• Helpware.net: C++ & HH - Quick Start
• HelpCentre: HTML Help MFC Sample
• ShadowMountainTech: Various Articles
• CodeGuru: Starting with HTML Help
• Microsoft: How to Programmatically Create a Tri-pane HTML Help Window (C++)
• Microsoft: How to Convert a New MFC Application to HTML Help Using WinHelp
• Microsoft: How to Set Up Visual C++ to Use the HTML Help API
• Microsoft: How to Create Context-Sensitive HTML Help in an MFC Application
• Microsoft: How to Implement HTML Help Text Pop-Ups in an MFC Application
• Indigoware: How to Add Context-Sensitive Help to Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Applications
• Code Project: Help Integration With The Visual Component Framework (VCF)

Microsoft C#

• Macromedia: Sample C# Application and Help File
• Microsoft: How to Use the Unmanaged HTML Help API from a Managed Visual C# .NET Application
• Indigoware: How to Add Context-Sensitive Help to Visual C# .NET Windows Applications

Microsoft VS .NET

• Helpware.net: Working with HH 1.x Chms in VS .NET
• DotNetJunkies: Help Authoring in .NET
• Microsoft: Visual Studio .NET Application Assistance
• HelpCentre: Using HTML Help with VB.NET
• Help-Info.de: Help Authoring in Visual Basic .NET
• Microsoft: How to Provide Context-Sensitive Help or Online Help in a Windows Application by Using Visual Basic .NET
• The Code Project: Integrate Help Into Your .NET Apps
• Indigoware: How to Add Context-Sensitive Help to Visual Basic .NET Windows Applications
• Launching Context-Sensitive HTML Help with Topic IDs in VB.NET

Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder

• The Delphi HH Kit
• HelpThinkPress: Delphi Programming the HH 1.x API
• The C++ Builder HH Kit
• EC Software: All about Help Files in Borland Delphi
• Borland Developer Network: Delphi and Microsoft HTML Help

PowerBuilder

• Macromedia: Sample PowerBuilder Application and Help File

Visual FoxPro

• EC Software: Implement HTML Help within FoxPro v3 or v5
• FoxPro Wiki: HTML Help Topic
• Microsoft: How to Create a Simple Context-Sensitive HTML Help File
• Microsoft: How to Create a Custom HTML Help Viewer in Visual FoxPro
• Microsoft: Implement HTMLHelp and WhatsThisHelp Concurrently
• Microsoft: HTML Help Does Not Work from VFP Application
• Microsoft: How to Instantiate Multiple Copies of HTML Help in Visual FoxPro 6.0
• Microsoft: Vfphtml.exe - Demonstrates HTML Help in VFP 3.0 and 5.0