Invoking a help program

[Bruce1965]

I have created a VBprogram and want to get clever by building in some help for the end user.

I have created a windows type help file (using HTML Help Workshop) and want to be able to invoke this from my VB program.

How do I -

Integrate this help file into my solution
and
Run the help from within the solution


Any tips/code will be appreciated.

Cheers

 

[ca8msm]

Have a look at the HelpProvider control. Here are some examples on it's use:

http://www.startvbdotnet.com/controls/helpprovider.aspx

http://www.helpscribble.com/dotnet.html

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[Bruce1965]

Thanks for that, the second link was most helpful - I've got it working when the user presses the F1 key .....

Is there a bit of code that I can assign to a button click event to invoke the help provider???


Cheers,
Paul

 

[ca8msm]

Yes, from the second article, this section should help:

To programmatically display help, you can use the static method ShowHelp() of the Help class.

To show the table of contents, call: Help.ShowHelp(this, "helpfile.chm");

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[Bruce1965]

I didn't get on with that snippet of code - just couldn't get it to work!!

However, I have found a solution that has worked -

 System.Windows.Forms.Help.ShowHelp( _
         Me, _
         HelpProvider1.HelpNamespace, _
         System.Windows.Forms.HelpNavigator.Topic, _
         HelpProvider1.GetHelpKeyword(Me))

Thanks for help anyway