I hope somebody can give me a recommendation:
I am developing an ASP application and it should have a help icon on each form. If pressed it should open up a new page displaying the help for this form. Now I need a development tool for creating the help similar to HelpNDoc. HelpNDoc itself is nice, but it seems to be very difficult to open up the help pages in a new browser window AND show the correct help page directly. So I am looking for a tool that can create such a HTML help, it would be nice of course, if it can deliver a nice printable version of the help, too.
why dont you use the free tool which will be installed when you install Visual Studio .net in C:\Program Files\HTML Help Workshop. this tool can create .chm files which you can use easily to provide help to your users
for more info of how to use the chm file in your web application see the below link
http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-p/help/html/article.php/c6503/
HC
Well, that thing does not generate any table of contents for a pure html view, except for the main page. So searching and navigating through the help would be almost impossible without the CHM help viewer, so this is not a help that somebody would like to use as a pure HTML help. And furthermore, that thing is very unintuitive to use, especially for someone who just wants to write help texts and organize topics and CHM will be desupported with Vista, so that almost 8 year old, never updated 'tool' is kind of obsolete.
I am looking for a nice help generated, that will generate a help page with a navigation bar on the left and probably even search capabilities in the help, where I can link directly to pages to integrate it in my application and best would be if the help can be printed as a documentation, too.
No comments:
Post a Comment