>I would like to add user Help facilities to the applications I am developing.
>I particularly like the format used in the MSDN Visual Studio Reference CD.
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>The VB documentation from Microsoft has frequent references on how to link to a help file, but there is little said about how to actually create such help files.
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>The book, MS VB 6.0 Component Tools Guide, says that help files can be created through the "Microsoft Windows Help Authoring Kit", available from Microsoft Press.
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>I have gone to the Microsoft Press web site and could find no mention of such a kit.
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>Going to the MSDN web site, I found some references that Microsoft is moving to an html help system. It explains what it is (uses std html code) but doesn't say anything about how a developer can actually create one that can be linked to his application.
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>Can anyone help me understand how I can create a help file?
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>Tony Lin

Tony,
Go to http://mvps.org/htmlhelpcenter/ and look for the "Tutorials". HTH