RE: CHMs, DFDs, and TGIF

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

LOL. WinHelp's deprecation was announced in 2006, but it's still a valid
Help platform, thanks to popular demand.

Not only does WinHelp work under Vista, but MS has already released an
download to keep it working under Windows 7
(http://tinyurl.com/yfoed8y).

The download is required only for 32-bit WinHelp -- 16-bit works
natively in Vista. But 32-bit WinHelp is better than 16-bit.

CHM and WinHelp each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Good
thing we still have a choice!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Combs, Richard
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 5:11 PM
> To: Tony Chung; TECHWR-L Writing
> Subject: RE: CHMs, DFDs, and TGIF
> 
> But CHMs _are_ Microsoft HTML Help (the .chm extension 
> derives from "compiled HTML"). They're what the Microsoft 
> Help Workshop creates. 
> 
> The deprecated help format is WinHelp (.hlp files). About the 
> time Vista came out, IIRC, MS made a bunch of noise about 
> replacing the compiled HTML format with a new XML-based help 
> format, but that still hasn't happened. Check out this MS 
> Developer Network topic: 
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms728460%28VS.85%29.aspx
> 
> 

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