Context-sensitive HTML Help for .NET application

[Peggy McClure]

Thanks Sarah,
The developers were hoping there was a solution where they didn't have to manually enter the information, and I assume this is just a list of the topic file names that they have to enter (not a special file).  But, yes they have used keywords in the past and that may be the way we'll end up doing it again. I wasn't sure if the keywords were anything particular, or needed to be in a special file format. 

Peggy 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sarah Davies 
  To: peg217 at rcn.com 
  Cc: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 5:17 AM
  Subject: RE: Context-sensitive HTML Help for .NET application



  >I'm new to creating HTML Help, and not sure how to accomplish 
  >context-sensitive help for a .NET application.

  We also create .CHMs with RoboHELP X5 for .NET applications. I give the developers the names of the individual topic .HTM files within my Help file, and they use those as the "keywords" to create the context-sensitive help.

  For example, the Select Files window in the application might have a link to Product.chm > SelectFiles.htm. (I don't know exactly how the links are implemented because I don't know C#, but presumably your developer has done this before, from what you say.) 

  It's not the most elegant solution, and requires a little more time than generating a file of MapIDs, but it does work. If anybody does have a better method than this, I'd love to hear it.

  Sarah