{"id":158,"date":"2007-04-01T11:31:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/cgi\/wp\/?p=158"},"modified":"2008-02-14T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T16:36:01","slug":"integrating-custom-help-into-visual-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Integrating Custom Help Into Visual Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">I have figured out how to convert my <strong>Notes.chm<\/strong> HTML Help  file into the new Help 2.0 format and how to add it to the <strong>The Visual  Studio .NET Combined Help Collection<\/strong>. First you need to download the  <strong>Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit 2003<\/strong> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=ce1b26dc-d6af-42a1-a9a4-88c4eb456d87&#038;DisplayLang=en\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=ce1b26dc-d6af-42a1-a9a4-88c4eb456d87&#038;DisplayLang=en<\/a>You will also need <strong>far42_inst660.exe<\/strong> from <a href=\"http:\/\/helpware.net\/\">http:\/\/helpware.net\/<\/a>The process is actually quite long and rather involved but the FAR Collection  Wizard found in <strong>Far-V4.2.0<\/strong> is the key to doing this. The  <strong>Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit 2003<\/strong> allows you to  maintain your help project in Visual Studio 2003 rather than use the old  <strong>HTML Help Workshop<\/strong> which always crashed on me.<\/p>\n<p>I am really thrilled about this because I have spent years building my help  file to maintain my programming notes. Now I have access to all that information  within Visual Studio! I can even view it in the <strong>Microsoft Document  Explorer<\/strong> that <strong>Visual Studio 2005<\/strong> uses. I am also  pleased that I can ditch the old HTML Help Workshop.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Visual Studio .NET Combined Help Collection\" title=\"The Visual Studio .NET Combined Help Collection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/images\/blog\/Visual-Studio-2003-Help.gif\" \/><\/strong><strong \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have figured out how to convert my Notes.chm HTML Help file into the new Help 2.0 format and how to add it to the The Visual Studio .NET Combined Help Collection. First you need to download the Visual Studio &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}