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Deploying a Help Collection

After you have authored your Help files, you will probably want to deploy them so that they can be integrated with the Visual Studio Help content on users' computers. The Visual Studio SDK has two distinct options for installing and registering your Help content. You can use either HelpStudio Lite or Microsoft Windows Installer and the Help merge modules supplied with the Visual Studio SDK. This section discusses how to use the merge modules and Microsoft Windows Installer to deploy and integrate your content.

There are three steps to installing and registering Help on a user's computer:

  • Create a Setup program and add your Help files to the project.

  • Update the supplied merge module (.msm) file with your specific information and several lines of information specific to Visual Studio.

  • Consume the updated .msm file, together with an additional set of .msm files (also supplied), into your project's .msi file.

The following topics provide implementation details.

In This Section

  • Help Integration
    Contains information about how deploy and register your Help content with the Visual Studio Help collection.

Change History

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July 2008

Updated In This Section to reflect TOC changes.

Information enhancement.