For this you add your content as separate HTML pages in the HTML Help Workshop under the project tab.

Once the structure template is ready, it’s time to fill it up with the actual documentation. I’ll describe this a bit later in this post. You can also add an advanced search, which in my opinion is one of the major strengths. These files will store the actual content and index trees (and are not much more than an html unordered list). This can be done by clicking the ‘Contents’ and ‘Index’ tab in the HTML Help Workshop. The next step is adding a content and an index file. You’ll most likely have to change this (a few times) in the course of creating the documentation when you feel another page is better fit to be the first page. This is also the place where you define the default file to show when opening the documentation. Double click on ‘’ to change any properties like the file name and the language. Normally you won’t have any index or content files yet, so you can skip most of the steps. This will open up a small wizard to get your started. chm documentation file, use the menu ‘File’ > ‘New’ > ‘Project’. When you download the HTML Help Workshop, you can also download the official manual which describes all possibilities in detail, but this post describes the most important things to know to give you a head start. This allows you to publish the help as a web application, or even more important, to make some changes or append extra info to a generated. chm file to a set of separate HTML files. An extra reason why it’s useful to know the tool, is the possibility to revert the. chm file format is still used regularly to create documentation, for example by SandCastle. Even though the tools are from the ‘dark ages’ (latest release is ), the. One of them is using the official Microsoft Help SDK which creates a.

There are several possibilities to create and maintain your (help) documentation. Tools Managing your help documentation with HTML Help Workshop May 24, 2010

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