Deploying application and include HTML help?

[Alain \Mbuna\]

Hi to you all.

As a beginning programmer, I finally succeeded in finishing my first
application. I made the application with VB expr 2005 and provided the
application with a help project, which I made with HTML Help Workshop.
It works fine on my laptop, where I made the app., even after publishing
(ClickOnce) and installing from CD.
But when I want the application to run on my other computer, the application
runs well, but my helpproject is not accessable!
It seems that I'm not able to publish the help files and get them installed
with the application!
Although I can see all the help files in the solution explorer (in the
folder Help) of vb 2005.

How can I publish my application so that help files are included and
installed on any PC I would like to install it on?
I already tried to copy them to the resources folder, but made no
difference.

Thanks for any help?

 

[Guest]

Alain,

I have not used the specific approach you used but I hope you can use this.

From the file system on target machine in the set-up project I added the
common files folder.
Then I made a subdirectory from that with "somename".
Then I added the html file(s) to the that directory.
In my application, the help sub points to that file in program files\common
files\somename\XXX.html.

Build the msi and when it runs it'll put make the folders and put the
appropriate file in it.