How to Create Help File

[ardhagp]

is any body know how to create an integrated Help Program (just like MSDN or MS Office Help) that could retrieve error number and display the solution to the user? i've been searching over internet, but most of them told to use .chm

[Pc_Not_Mac]

Yes you need to use a .CHM file.
Google for a editor or a maker of .cmh file.
There is no feature in VS that's going to make a .cmh file for you.

[ardhagp]

is there still the way to send reference number from vb.net to .chm file? so when chm open its automatically open to specific page..

[Pc_Not_Mac]

I'm not going to lie to you.
I never worked with a .chm file before.

[Zeljko]

Yes, you can send a 'reference number' to .chm so that .chm (html) will open directly on that page...

Use HTML Workshop from Microsoft to create them. But you still need some software to create html files.

So basically you need to create first a bunch of html files (like in creating a web page) and then take them all with HTML Workshop and 'compress' it to one single file with .chm extension so your app can work with them... I suggest: one topic=one html page=one 'reference number' better then multiple topics on one single html page with multiple references

CHM is in fact only a bunch of .html files in one single file with TOC and tags...

Some references over here:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=608389

Try it, and if you run in to problems we are here to push you in the right direction

[Pc_Not_Mac]

I never found the .chm file usefully.

[FlyingBear]

chm is just a collection of html pages, and it has some index..., check Microsoft HTML HELP Workshop. It is free and from MS.