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Ok, out with the old ... in with the new ... Microsoft's help files work with

Vista ... where's the solution for programmer's using Microsoft products such

as Visual Studio?


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You just need a update from Microsoft to open some old help files in Vista.

Download it using the link below:



www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx >www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx



p.s: It's validation required.



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"Mike" wrote:



,HLP format is an obsolete format.

.CHM format has replaced .HLP since Win98

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"Windy" wrote:



,HLP format is an obsolete format.

.CHM format has replaced .HLP since Win98! There're no valid reasons to

install winhelp32.exe on Vista unless you have a very very very old

application

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"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message





This is an old issue, so a bit of googling will turn up a host of solutions.

You can use the older winhlp32.exe from an XP installation to view your .hlp

files



--

Jon





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That's probably a question for a programming

newsgroup. I know that there are HTML help

compilers available, and MS has a primitive

version of such a thing as a free download. I don't

have a link offhand, but it should be easy enough

to find. The gist of it is that you have to write each

page as a webpage, then the CHM compiler puts

those together.



Personally I use Shalom, the free and convenient

.HLP editor/creator. As Windy said, you can direct

people to a support download for the .HLP files. Many

Vista users are likely to need that anyway, as .hlp files

are still very common. (Ironically, the .hlp file I use the

most is the one for Win32 API documentation. I don't

know of a CHM version of that in a single file.) And .hlp

files have the advantage of not carrying the security

risks that have plagued HTML help.



On the downside, I seem to remember hearing of people

having trouble with installing the .hlp update patch.



Then again, no one ever reads help files, so not to worry. :)





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That's probably a question for a programming

newsgroup. I know that there are HTML help

compilers available, and MS has a primitive

version of such a thing as a free download. I don't

have a link offhand, but it should be easy enough

to find. The gist of it is that you have to write each

page as a webpage, then the CHM compiler puts

those together.



Personally I use Shalom, the free and convenient

.HLP editor/creator. As Windy said, you can direct

people to a support download for the .HLP files. Many

Vista users are likely to need that anyway, as .hlp files

are still very common. (Ironically, the .hlp file I use the

most is the one for Win32 API documentation. I don't

know of a CHM version of that in a single file.) And .hlp

files have the advantage of not carrying the security

risks that have plagued HTML help.



On the downside, I seem to remember hearing of people

having trouble with installing the .hlp update patch.



Then again, no one ever reads help files, so not to worry. :)









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