Help Integration Reference

This section provides several general reference topics about Help integration and deployment.

In This Section

• MSDN Attribute Schema
  Provides a list of attributes defined by MSDN.

• Attributes in Visual Studio
  Discusses the attributes that were used to tag content in the Help files in Visual Studio.

• Collection-Level Files
  Summarizes the requirement for, and describes how to create, your Help project's collection-level files.

• Dexplore Command-Line Options
  Describes the command line switches available for dexplore.exe, a DOS command line utility.

• Implementing Named URL Indexes
  Describes how to customize some display features of your Help collection by implementing a named URL index.

• Managing Help Filters
  Describes how to provide Help filters to enable end-users to filter information.

• Other Registration Methods
  Describes alternatives to using Windows Installer to register your Help collection.

• Help API Reference
  Provides reference documentation for the Microsoft.VisualStudio.VSHelp and Microsoft.VisualStudio.VSHelp80 namespaces.

• Item Monikers
  Describes Microsoft Help item monikers that are used to specify Navigation objects in the collection definition (.HxC) file.

Related Sections

• Help Stop-Word List
  Defines terms that are typically included in stop word lists.

• Help Authoring Reference
  Provides links to Microsoft Help 2 file types and XML tags and attributes.

• Help Authoring
  Provides information about how to use HelpStudio Lite to author Help content.