Course DEV-14

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Course DEV-14
HTML Help Ted Roche, MCSD Blackstone
Incorporated http//www.bstone.com
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Ted Roche

• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
• Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
• Contributing Editor, FoxPro Advisor
• Author, Hackers Guide to Visual FoxPro 3.0 and
  6.0

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Agenda

• Why HTML Help?
• What are the Components?
• How to Create HTML Help
• Demo
• Viewing Help standalone and on Web
• Updating Help

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Why HTML Help?

• Familiar HTML language
• Full support for local and Web Links
• VBScript and JScript support
• TOC, Index and Full-Text Searching
• Viewable as local file or Web Site
• ActiveX or Java
• Its a Microsoft Standard!

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What are the Components?

• Your content HTML, GIF, JPG, scripts
• .HHP Project file
• tracks file usage, window definitions,
  preferences
• .HHC Table of Contents
• SiteMap format, defines icons and links
• .HHK Index
• SiteMap format

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Components, continued

• Distribution
• .CHM Compiled Help File
• ActiveX control
• HH.EXE - standalone executable
• Java Applet

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• HTML Help Authoring Tool Free from Microsoft
• http//www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/htmlhelp
  
• Many Third Party Tools available
• RoboHTML
• ForeHelp
• Doc-To-Help

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Summary

• HTML Help standards based
• Accessible through code or the web
• Updateable

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Thank You!
Ted Roche, MCSD Blackstone Incorporated
http//www.bstone.com [phone]