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Hi,

I'm updating the help for my project and was wondering if good old .chm files (which I use) are still used, or are people moving away from them and using Office style help? If this is the case are there any decent, resonably priced (free?) tools out there?

Cheers.

Posted 14-Jan-11 0:56am

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Ashish Tyagi 40 14-Jan-11 11:46am

No need for office style help....
help.chm will do.... :)

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Espen Harlinn · Answer 1 · 2011-01-14T01:06:00

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Here is some info: MS HELP 2.x Info
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Some more info here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700819.aspx[^]

Here is a widely used help file builder:Welcome to the Sandcastle Help File Builder[^]

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Posted 14-Jan-11 1:06am

Espen Harlinn

Updated 14-Jan-11 1:08am

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