Context-sensitive HTML Help for .NET application

[Peggy McClure]

John,
I don't know either if it would work for .NET.  I don't know if they have a specific reason for wanting compiled, help rather than uncompiled, but this is another possible solution we can check into.

thanks,
Peggy 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Garison 
  To: Peggy McClure 
  Cc: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:45 AM
  Subject: Re: Context-sensitive HTML Help for .NET application


  I'm not sure if this will work with .NET, but it worked fine with .asp files.

  In our application, each .asp page had a unique name. We created a corresponding help page (in uncompiled html, not chm) with the same name; of course, they each had different extensions: Intro.asp and Intro.htm.

  We got the developers to write a short script that would 1) determine the active page's name 2) call the associated help file, and 3) display the help file in a new window. When the script was loaded with each application page, voila, we had a context sensitive help system.

  We even worked it backwards so that of the user found a help page associated with an application page, they could launch that application page from the help system.

  My 2¢,

  John Garison






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

I'm using RoboHelp X5 to create the HTML Help .chm  file with (ideally)
window-level context sensitivity. The application I'm documenting was
created using CSharp NET, (C# .NET?) and the developer tells me it does not
use .h files. He is looking for keywords to implement the context-sensitive
help, which they've used in the past with a .chm file, rather than topic
IDs.

I've searched the TECHWR-L archives and other sources, but haven't found
anything specifically for what kind of file to deliver for the
context-sensitive help mapping, and how to create the keywords. (As far as I
can tell, I should be able to do this with RoboHelp X5).

Are these keywords the same as the topic keywords or index keywords? What
type of file does a .NET application need instead of the .h file? As far as
I can tell from searching the web, the RoboHelp X5 supports .NET, and I
should be able to do this with RoboHelp X5.

I'm missing a piece of the puzzle (or maybe a few) - any help is greatly
appreciated.

Regards

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Peggy McClure
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Fax 707-667-3858
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