Need good help authoring tool

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moondaddy

Can anyone recommend a good help authoring tool for a enterprise
application. The only robust one I know of is robohelp.
 
Hi moondaddy,

Thanks for your post.

First, I do not think post has anything to do with .Net Winform. So I
suggest post such post in a more related newsgroup, such as
dotnet.framework, dotnet.general or specific language group, then you will
get more useful help from the community.

Currently, for this issue, I have not much experience for many 3-party help
authoring tools, however, I think we may search "help authoring tool"+ C#
in http://www.google.com, based on my search, I can see a lot of existed
help authoring tools available. Thanks

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights.
 
Thanks Jeffrey,

I posted here for several reasons:
I'm building a winforms app and need a help authoring tool for winforms
apps. I figure this community would be most aware of such tools for
winforms apps.
I also searched google, but found only lots of cheaper tools or free
tools and nothing that looked like it was for high end enterprise apps.
I have more confidence in feedback from this community than the
marketing documention found in places like google.
 
Hi

I just spent a couple of days evaluating and using a help tool in order to
create documentation for an existing .NET assembly that I have built. If you
only want to auto generate from an assembly then you can use the free NDoc
utility that is available from SourceForge. I used this for over a year but
once my assembly reached around 1MB it stopped working and was becoming
painfully slow.

I tried using the Doc-to-Help from ComponentOne and was not very impressed.
It was very slow and usually failed when dealing with my large assembly.
Yesterday I bought the Document X product and that has been really good.
Also not very quick with my assembly but an excellent standard of Help v1
and v2 output. Plus I could add my own custom text as well. I would
recommend this one as its also easy to use.

Hope that helps
Phil Wright
Follow my microISV startup at....
http://componentfactory.blogspot.com

PS. I do not work for or have any financial interest in any help authouring
tool.

moondaddy said:
Thanks Jeffrey,

I posted here for several reasons:
I'm building a winforms app and need a help authoring tool for winforms
apps. I figure this community would be most aware of such tools for
winforms apps.
I also searched google, but found only lots of cheaper tools or free
tools and nothing that looked like it was for high end enterprise apps.
I have more confidence in feedback from this community than the
marketing documention found in places like google.

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"Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]" said:
Hi moondaddy,

Thanks for your post.

First, I do not think post has anything to do with .Net Winform. So I
suggest post such post in a more related newsgroup, such as
dotnet.framework, dotnet.general or specific language group, then you
will
get more useful help from the community.

Currently, for this issue, I have not much experience for many 3-party
help
authoring tools, however, I think we may search "help authoring tool"+ C#
in http://www.google.com, based on my search, I can see a lot of existed
help authoring tools available. Thanks

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no
rights.
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Hi moondaddy,

Thanks for your feedback.

Yes, I see your concern. Ok, I hope the community experience member will
give you some valuable suggestion. Thanks

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights.
 
Thanks Phil,

In what way was it slow with your assembly? when working in the dev.
enviroment, or as help in the finished product for the end user?

This looks like a pretty good product. any idea how it compares with
robohelp?

--
(e-mail address removed)
Phil Wright said:
Hi

I just spent a couple of days evaluating and using a help tool in order to
create documentation for an existing .NET assembly that I have built. If
you only want to auto generate from an assembly then you can use the free
NDoc utility that is available from SourceForge. I used this for over a
year but once my assembly reached around 1MB it stopped working and was
becoming painfully slow.

I tried using the Doc-to-Help from ComponentOne and was not very
impressed. It was very slow and usually failed when dealing with my large
assembly. Yesterday I bought the Document X product and that has been
really good. Also not very quick with my assembly but an excellent
standard of Help v1 and v2 output. Plus I could add my own custom text as
well. I would recommend this one as its also easy to use.

Hope that helps
Phil Wright
Follow my microISV startup at....
http://componentfactory.blogspot.com

PS. I do not work for or have any financial interest in any help
authouring tool.

moondaddy said:
Thanks Jeffrey,

I posted here for several reasons:
I'm building a winforms app and need a help authoring tool for
winforms apps. I figure this community would be most aware of such tools
for winforms apps.
I also searched google, but found only lots of cheaper tools or free
tools and nothing that looked like it was for high end enterprise apps.
I have more confidence in feedback from this community than the
marketing documention found in places like google.

--
(e-mail address removed)
"Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]" said:
Hi moondaddy,

Thanks for your post.

First, I do not think post has anything to do with .Net Winform. So I
suggest post such post in a more related newsgroup, such as
dotnet.framework, dotnet.general or specific language group, then you
will
get more useful help from the community.

Currently, for this issue, I have not much experience for many 3-party
help
authoring tools, however, I think we may search "help authoring tool"+
C#
in http://www.google.com, based on my search, I can see a lot of existed
help authoring tools available. Thanks

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no
rights.
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