>>Hi, foxes!
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>>Does somebody can tell me what is the best tool to create html help files (chm) to use within my vfp applications, and where I can find it?
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>I'll second Eric's vote for West Wind HTML Help Builder. It's extremely intuitive (which I can't say for Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop), and very reasonably priced.
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>You might want to start by looking at Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/chm/hh1start.htm because it's free, and you need it to compile your CHM files with WW HTML Help Builder.

You could also look at ForeHelp at http://www.sinterphase.com/fhintro.htm which has a free eval version that will only compile 25 topics. It will also build old-fashioned WinHelp from the same source files, which is good if you need to build help for some other environment that doesn't support HTML help, such as Access 97. However, if you need it primarily for building help for vfp6 apps, and don't need to support WinHelp, Rick's tool is probably unbeatable because of its vfp class documenting features (whatever they are, it has been a while).

RoboHelp at http://www.blue-sky.com/ is another popular tool but there is no shareware eval version last time I looked.

One thing worth doing is to build help using the sample version of either, make use of the context-sensitive stuff, then open the resulting help project in the Windows HHW (HTML Help Workshop). That helped me figure out how HHW does context-sensitive help, which is very badly documented by MSFT.