Help authoring

Mark Rae · Mar 23, 2004

Hi all,

Back in the bad old days before .NET, I used to use a help authoring product
called Visual Help from a company called WinWare Inc. An excellent product,
whose IDE looked and felt very similar to VB6.

However, WinWare Inc is no more and, although I still have their help
authoring tool, my company is uncomfortable about my using an unsupported
product and has asked me to resource another. I find the HTML Help Workshop
very cumbersome, and am wondering if anyone can recommend anything better.
Something which integrates with VS.NET would be great.

Any assistance gratefully received.

Best,

Mark Rae

Andreas Håkansson · Mar 23, 2004

Mark,

You could check out Ndoc http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndoc/ tool
or do a quick search on google and you'll find commercial tools as well.

Hope this helps,

//Andreas

Mark Rae · Mar 23, 2004

You could check out Ndoc http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndoc/ tool

Does this actually create help files...?

or do a quick search on google and you'll find commercial tools as well.

I realise that - maybe some members could recommend a product...?

Andreas Håkansson · Mar 23, 2004

Mark,

Yes Ndoc create helps file. If you want a commercial tool then
you could look at DocumentX from http://www.innovasys.com/ I
have tested it myself and I liked it.

Hope this helps,

//Andreas

Mark Rae · Mar 23, 2004

Andreas Håkansson said:
Mark,

Yes Ndoc create helps file. If you want a commercial tool then
you could look at DocumentX from http://www.innovasys.com/ I
have tested it myself and I liked it.

Looks good, but their other product HelpStudio looks even better :-)

Thanks for the recommendation.