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Hi:

I’m looking for visually appealing, robust Help component to add to my (.NET C#) Windows form. It must have search & indexing etc and docking. Appreciate any recommendations.

Thanks!

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Are you wanting to write this yourself or use something that has already been written?

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Are you wanting to write this yourself or use something that has already been written?

Looking for something that's already available.

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Ok. Are you looking to spend any money, or would you prefer open source?

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Ok. Are you looking to spend any money, or would you prefer open source?

No preference

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Hmmm well I just did a quick search and nothing came up. I suspect that's why you came here! There is a class for Help using chm files in .Net but I don't think it's dockable. You might just have to write your own (then maybe you could sell it!)

Are you familiar with the concepts involved? (Filtering/searching, parsing help data files, custom controls)

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Hmmm well I just did a quick search and nothing came up. I suspect that's why you came here! There is a class for Help using chm files in .Net but I don't think it's dockable. You might just have to write your own (then maybe you could sell it!)

Are you familiar with the concepts involved? (Filtering/searching, parsing help data files, custom controls)

Looks like I'll create my own. Did a similar search and did not find anything decent. Thanks for you response!

And yes - I'm familiar with the concepts you indicated.

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Its not a bad idea to create (your own website, or some page of it) to point the help from your app. to it, like:

Help.ShowHelp(this, "http://www.helpware.net"); //this is exmaple url
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