What's New in Help and Help Integration
With the release of the Visual Studio SDK, both Help and Help integration have been enhanced to support the following new features.
New Features in Help Authoring and Integration
HelpStudio Lite
The primary tool for authoring, building, and deploying Help content is Help Studio Lite. For more information, see How to: Start HelpStudio Lite.
HelpStudio Lite offers the following features:
A user-friendly interface for authoring and building Help content.
Support for integrating Help with the Visual Studio combined collection.
Support for migrating Microsoft Help Projects to the HelpStudio format.
For more information see the HelpStudio Lite documentation.
New Features in Microsoft Help Integration
Microsoft Help integration features the following enhancements to supplement the functionality in HelpStudio Lite:
You can high-light your Help collection by adding a "How Do I" page.
For more information, see Custom "How Do I" Pages.
The TOC Plug-in feature enables you to insert the TOC of a child collection within the TOC of a parent collection.
For more information, see Inserting the TOC of a Child Collection into a Parent Collection.
The Microsoft.VisualStudio.VSHelp80 namespace includes the Help2 object that is used to programmatically control Microsoft Document Explorer (dexplore.exe).
For more information, see Programmatically Interacting with Document Explorer.
Support for Windows Installer Merge Modules
As with Visual Studio 2003, you can use the Help merge modules to integrate your Help collection with the Visual Studio Help collection. For more information, see Deploying Your Help Collection.