Help files

[Jon Cosby]

How do you open a "help" file? I'm trying to associate it with a menu item.
I've looked at the Help and HelpProvider classes, but neither seems to serve
this purpose.

 

[Doug Forster]

Hi Jon,

For some reason MS seem to have omitted context help attached to menu items,
but you can do it yourself by writing yourself a component that implements
IExtenderProvider. This can hook into the Form HelpRequested and
MenuComplete events and the MenuItem Select events so it can track the
currently selected MenuItem and display appropriate Help on the
HelpRequested event.

Cheers

Doug Forster