Tuesday, March 29, 2005

help collection in vs dot net ide

Creating the Help Collection
Follow the steps below to create a Help collection in Visual Studio 2003.
In Visual Studio, click the File command, point to New, and click Project to display the New Project dialog box.
In the Project Types pane, expand the Other Projects folder, and click Extensibility Projects.
In the Templates pane, click Help Integration Wizard, type TestCollection in the Name box, and click OK.
The Help Integration Wizard appears.
On the Choose Project Settings page, select Stand-alone Setup Project, select Visual Studio 2003 from the Target dropdown list, and click Next.
On the Select Collection Files page, click Add to display the Add Help Files dialog box. Browse to the \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help\1033 folder, click dexplore.hxs, and click Open.
The wizard adds dexplore.hxs to the Source Files list.
Click Next to the display the Build The TOC page.
In the Plugin Style group box, select Flat.
The top-level node disappears from the Help Collection TOC tree view.
Click the Insert Node button on the toolbar.
A blue node, titled New Node, appears in the Help Collection TOC pane.
Select dexplore in the Exclude From TOC pane and click Include.
The top node of the dexplore.hxs table of contents, titled Help on Help, is added below the node titled New Node.
Select the Help on Help node and click the Move Node Right button on the toolbar.
The Help on Help node becomes a child of the New Node node.
Select the New Node node and click the Properties button on the toolbar.
The Node Properties dialog box appears.
Expand the dexplore node and select /about/about_dexplore.htm.
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