How do you show a help file?

Insert a commondialog box, right click it properties, click the help tab and then fill in the boxes.
use the command ShowHelp to show the help file:

Code:

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Commondialog1.Showhelp

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Try this. It will display the Contents of the Help file. If you want to display a specific context, set the HelpContext property to the topic you want to show.

Code:

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Private Sub Command1_Click()

    'Specify the Help file
    CommonDialog1.HelpFile = "C:\HelpFile.hlp"
    'Display the Contents specified in the [CONTENTS] section of the HPJ file.
    CommonDialog1.HelpCommand = cdlHelpContents
    'Show the HelpFile
    CommonDialog1.ShowHelp

End Sub

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*wow* didn't knew this, I just did it with the ShellExecute API, it makes the program smaller (except when you already have the common Dialog in your prog)