merge existing chm help into vs.net's help?

[Samuel R. Neff]

Is there an easy way to merge the chm help for a 3rd party product
into vs.net's help?

Infragistics setup did this automatically, but now I want to merge
another product that doesn't offer this functionality in it's setup.

Thanks,

Sam

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]]

VS.NET does not use .chm files (HTML Help 1.x) but a new help format (HTML
Help 2), and AFAIK you can not merge .chm files directly, you must create
new help files:

Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwmscextendingnethelp.asp

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[Samuel R. Neff]

Thanks. Not what I wanted to hear, but thanks for the info.

Best regards,

Sam

 

[Peter Huang [MSFT]]

Hi Samuel,

I agree with Carlos's suggestion.

Here is another link about the Visual Studio .NET Help Integration Kit.
Integrating Help into Visual Studio .NET
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/VSHelpIntegration.asp

Best regards,

Perter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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[Samuel R. Neff]

The suggestion does not apply--it's not my help I want to merge, it's
for a 3rd party control I downloaded. I wanted to merge their help
which is provided as a CHM.

Thanks for the info though as it may be useful in the future for my
own extensions and controls.

Best regards,

Sam

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]]

AFAIK, .chm files can be decompiled with the HTML Help Workshop (File \
Decompile menu) to get the sources...

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